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Friday, September 19, 2014

Cheat Sheet - The Right’s War On Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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September 19, 2014
BACKLASH
The Cosmos host is widely despised by conservatives, despite his huge popularity across the nation. Recently, they've highlighted what they say are fabrications by the astrophysicist to advance his agenda. Tim Mak asks: Is that a legitimate complaint or just anti-intellectualism run amok?
LOSER

After an embarrassing defeat at the voting booth on Thursday, Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond of the Scottish National Party, is resigning. In a speech on Friday, Salmond declared, "For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream shall never die." He also warned that Scots should already be wary as he believes British Prime Minister David Cameron is already reneging on promises made to voters if Scotland voted to stay in the union. "We lost the referendum vote but can still carry the political initiative. More importantly Scotland can still emerge as the real winner," he said.

MYTH BUSTER
'Chronic Lyme disease' is a highly contested diagnosis—one with no science to support it—but that doesn't stop Lyme truthers or the doctors who take advantage of them. Russell Saunders gives an in-depth look on how self-proclaimed experts in a nonexistent condition misdiagnose and overmedicate patients, potentially doing far more harm than good.
SICK
At least eight journalists and Ebola aid workers in Guinea were killed by villagers who then dumped their bodies in a latrine. The murders are the first deadly example of an increasing distrust among the local population about Westerners. The individuals were "killed in cold blood by the villagers," a spokesman for the Guinean government said Thursday. Those attacked included administrators, medical officers, a preacher, and three journalists. They were attacked by a stone-throwing mob as they visited the village to do disinfection work and educate the local populace. Additional aid teams have been pushed out in other locations in the region.
TARGETS
Police are investigating a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fraternity for an alleged scheme in which its members developed a system for putting date-rape drugs into women's drinks. According to police, females were given color-coded Xs on their hands when they walked in to TKE fraternity, and three women who had red Xs were hospitalized. A man who drank from a red X'd woman's cup was also hospitalized. The chapter has been suspended by the university. That same fraternity was investigated last year for three sexual-assault reports, but no charges were filed.

ANNEXATION
Russians Buy Pabst Blue Ribbon
Oasis Beverages is new owner.
STANDING UP
UN: Migrant Boat Sinking 'Mass Murder'
As many as 500 drowned.
UNGODLY
'Blasphemous' Muslim Assassinated
Liberal scholar shot dead in Pakistan.
MONSTERS
Japan to Resume Whaling Program
Despite illegality.

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