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Links – 03/01/2017

  • Posted on March 1, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Brian Boutwell and J. C. Barnes argue on Quillette that many results in sociology may be confounded by genetics, but we don’t know for sure because social scientists use research designs that don’t account for that possibility. In particular, they mention neighborhood effect, which…

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Trump, Russia and the media – The deep state against Trump and the threat on democracy (part 4)

  • Posted on February 24, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Meanwhile, the New York Times also published a long piece on the alleged ties between Trump’s campaign and Russia, with the headline “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence”. This makes it sound as if we are going to be treated with shocking…

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Trump, Russia and the media – The Buzzfeed dossier and the bankruptcy of journalism (part 3)

  • Posted on February 23, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The media was already sold on the allegations that Russia had interfered in the election to help Trump when, on January 10, CNN wrote that intelligence chiefs had briefed Trump about a dossier that was circulating according to which Russia had compromising…

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Trump, Russia and the media – The administration makes its case and it’s the red scare all over again (part 2)

  • Posted on February 22, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Despite the weakness of the evidence they provided, after private cybersecurity companies made those claims against Russia, the media almost unanimously accepted them as facts. This became even more true after the US intelligence community started to publicly make very…

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Trump, Russia and the media – The hacking of the Democratic party and private cybersecurity companies (part 1)

  • Posted on February 21, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

For several months, allegations that Russia interfered in the US presidential election to help Trump, as well as claims that Trump and some of his associates have ties with Russia, have been all over the media. They are repeated so…

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More on Flynn’s resignation, the use of anonymous sources by the media and the alleged ties between Trump and Russia

  • Posted on February 16, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Brian Stelter wrote a self-congratulatory piece for CNN in which he praises journalists for their role in Flynn’s resignation. According to him and many other people in the media, investigative journalism and information leaked by courageous people in the administration led to Flynn’s…

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Links – 02/15/2017

  • Posted on February 15, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A friend recently created a petition asking the governors of several blue states to “explore the possibility of forming an interstate, single-payer healthcare system for their residents”. I personally don’t think a single-payer healthcare system is a good idea, and I have no idea…

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On Flynn’s resignation

  • Posted on February 14, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

With Flynn’s resignation, the anti-Russia hysteria, which had been receding a little bit recently as people were busy losing their mind over other things, is back with a vengeance. This story has been developing for more than a month and, after weeks of…

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Links – 02/12/2017

  • Posted on February 12, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Under the leadership of a superintendent who took seriously the disparate impact doctrine, which assumes that any policy that disproportionately affects some groups is thereby discriminatory, the public schools in St. Paul, Minnesota changed their disciplinary procedures so as to…

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Trump dumped Abrams

  • Posted on February 10, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Trump apparently decided to dump Abrams, who there won’t be Deputy Secretary of State, which is a very good news. Of course, this happy development has nothing to do with the activity of the opposition, who was far too busy opposing…

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