“Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.” ShouldOne ThingEvidenceResponsibleJournalismJunk Book:Tom Stoppard: Plays Source: Tom Stoppard: Plays
“David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).” ShowsStandardsEvidenceAccountsAbsolutesResponsibleBritishProofHolocaustDocumentariesBombingDouble StandardBritish HistoryDresdenConvictsCircumstantial Evidence Book:History in Our Time Source: History in Our Time
“A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.” IfsNeedsFeelsShouldFirstsWellsMeanDoeCoursesLiteratureGivenTeachCenturyTheoryMajorsEvidenceTwentiesResponsibleMethodAppreciationLawyerPhysicsCorporateEndeavorAssetsQuantumMechanicQuantum MechanicsFactualCorrelationCitizenry Book:Einstein: His Life and Universe Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe
“I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.” ThinkingKnowsGivingDoeJesusEvidenceResponsibleMethodHistoricalSillyOverwhelmingHistorianScholarBiblicalCredence Author:Bart D. Ehrman
“When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And an ABC news poll said that 55 percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein directly supported al-Qaeda. None of this opinion is based on evidence (because there isn’t any).” WorldSaidStatesUnitedOpinionUnited StatesNew YorkNewsPercentEvidenceResponsibleTradeIraqAlsSeptemberSaddamHusseinPollsSeptember 11New York TimesSurveysAl QaedaPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterSeptember 11th Author:Arundhati Roy
“There is not a scintilla of evidence that the Russians even are responsible for the leak of all of those John Podesta emails to WikiLeaks. You may think that you've heard all these intelligence people running around saying that they have concluded that the Russians were trying to hack this and trying to hack that. That use of the word "conclusion," by the way, is kind of like the use of the word "claimed" by the Drive-By Media.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindRunningEvidenceResponsibleConclusion Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy, the differential treatment of crack versus powder cocaine and question is how my research impacted my view on policy. Clearly that policy is not based on the weight of the scientific evidence. That is when the policy was implemented, the concern about crack cocaine was so great that something had to be done and congress acted in the only way they knew how, they passed policy and that's what a responsible society should do.” DonePastAttentionPolicyEvidenceConcernResponsibleCocaine Author:Carl Hart
“Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.” IfsKindDoneHalfOne ThingTenEvidenceAdultsResponsibleLifetimeLocalsThings To DoShopsMaturePanicOutletsSupposingOne Of A KindSupposing ThatThrottle Author:Alexandra Ivy
“Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.” ReligionMillionsSupportAtheismEvolutionConscienceEvidenceScientistResponsibleTinySenateCommitteesFractionsScientific Evidence Author:D. James Kennedy
“...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this DNA evidence and scientific laws governing UI as premises, we are able to develop sound, logical deductions. This leads us to the following conclusion: the God of the Bible exists and He is responsible for originating and embedding Universal Information into biological life.” AbleLawSoundAtheismInformationParticularEvidenceUniversalResponsibleFollowingConclusionLogicalGenesDnaPremisesGoverningDeductionsDna EvidenceEmbedding Author:Werner Gitt
“Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but 'there has been no net global warming since 1998.' Indeed, the more recent numbers show that there is now evidence of significant cooling [...] Mankind is responsible for just a fraction of one percent of the effect from greenhouse gases, and greenhouse gases are not responsible for most of what causes warming (e.g., the Sun).” Has BeensShowsCausesNumbersSunMankindEffectsLatePercentEvidenceResponsibleSignificantRisingGlobal WarmingTemperatureFractionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesCooling Author:John R. Lott Jr.