Thursday, November 1, 2007

Happy Halloween - How to spot BullS**t in the news.

Chances are if there is a ? in the headline, its total bull. News agencies use the ? as a cop-out so they can say something that isn't true.
Is Barack Obama a Gay Nazi-Loving Pedophile? The answer in the actual article will always be "No, but one guy who doesn't hold a degree in anything repeated a rumor he heard on Digg so we're reporting it as major headline news.

What else rules? manipulated images.
Aside from the fact that the above image is obviously doctored and tagged in the caption as "might look like" the article is actually referring to technology that is more like dynamic camouflage than a cloaking device. (Click the image to go to the actual article) The technology the article is referring to can be viewed below.

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