Palmer Report Republishes Fake Daily News Bin Story Against Media Bias Fact Check
For some mysterious reason Bill Palmer of the Palmer Report and the Daily News Bin has decided to republish, a false report about Media Bias Fact Check…
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The seven deadly sins of statistical misinterpretation, and how to avoid them
Where are the error bars? Shutterstock Winnifred Louis, The University of Queensland and Cassandra Chapman, The University of Queensland Statistics is a useful tool for…
A 2-for-1 for Racists: Post Hateful Fliers, and Revel in the News Coverage
by Ken Schwencke ProPublica, March 24, 2017, 8 a.m. The Houston man laid out the details of his triumphant plan during a podcast last July:…
Why polls seem to struggle to get it right – on elections and everything else
Where are the people really going? kewl/flickr, CC BY Daniel Alexander, Drake University I am a professor of mathematics, so my ears perk up when I…
We Fact-Checked Lawmakers’ Letters to Constituents on Health Care
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, March 22, 2017, 5 a.m. When Louisiana resident Andrea Mongler wrote to her senator, Bill Cassidy, in support of the Affordable…
Could Roe v. Wade be overturned?
Pro-life and anti-abortion activists converge in front of the Supreme Court on Jan. 27, 2017. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik B. Jessie Hill, Case Western Reserve University…
How a Christian movement is growing rapidly in the midst of religious decline
Jesus culture. Adam Rozanas, CC BY-NC-ND Brad Christerson, Biola University and Richard Flory, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences In…
How online hate infiltrates social media and politics
From person to person, the spread of online hate can be rapid. Connections via shutterstock.com Adam G. Klein, Pace University In late February, the headline of…
The power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism
A 1969 photo of political theorist and scholar Hannah Arendt. AP Photo Kathleen B. Jones, San Diego State University In the weeks since the election…
Fake News has Jumped the Shark
Here at Media Bias Fact Check we try to stay away from opinion pieces, unless said piece is extremely evidence based. I want to give…