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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| CBS Screws Up Again, Covers Up |
| 2008-06-20 |
| The main headline was this: Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years Ago Because Of Global Warming This drew a lot of attention because of the total lack of verifiable science associated with it. I posted some graphs of USGS data showing that the opposite was true, that recent earthquake energy was actually less that in the early 1900’s, and several commenters pointed out that the source of the story, a Dr. Tom Chalko, has some less than stellar associations with what I would describe as “new age” mysticism, such as Thiaoouba Prophecy and “reading your Aura”. He also writes a dandy piece entitled “Global Warming: Can Earth EXPLODE?” which is linked to a website he runs about “bioresonance” where you can buy a “bioresonant” shirt. So with that sort of science background available on the web for anyone to see in a few seconds of searching, one wonders how CBS News was duped into running a story like this without even bothering to check into the author. This makes the “historic” Microsoft Word documents used by Dan Rather to discredit President Bush’s National Guard Service look like a peer reviewed science paper. The story gets weirder. CBS attributed the story on their website to the Associated Press (AP) and you can see that clearly in the screen capture of the story below. Odd thing though, there is no dateline, as you usually see with an AP story, and no story author. After apparently learning of the less than scientific associations of the lead author of the research, CBS removed it from their website as of about 3 p.m. EST on June 19. Here is where it gets interesting, after CBS pulled the story from their website, I did some searches for it on the Associated Press website at www.ap.org thinking it would still be there. The story is not found in searches at www.ap.org using “Tom Chalko” or “earthquake global warming”. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #4 cBS.. Lots of Laughs! :) |
| Posted by: RD 2008-06-20 23:55 |
| #3 "Britany Spears in Rehab"__ Gerbil Worming Blamed |
| Posted by: Captain Clugum9619 2008-06-20 18:51 |
| #2 Like the TANG story, this was just too good to check. |
| Posted by: charger 2008-06-20 18:22 |
| #1 CBS stands for "Constant Bull Shit!" |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-06-20 15:13 |