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2017-01-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Atlantic Magazine Retracts Claim That Fetal Heartbeats Are ‘Imaginary'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-25 02:12|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 a Yale doctoral candidate in comparative literature, included at least three major errors that the publication corrected

Well if we're supposed to listen to slut celebrities for our global politics it makes sense that we get medical facts from a Comp. Lit. major.

Do you think the Atlantic knows the difference between a PhD and an MD?

Posted by AlanC 2017-01-25 07:33|| 2017-01-25 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 ...do you think they care? [until they personally faced a medical emergency]

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-25 08:08|| 2017-01-25 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Mainstream media is filled with fact-checkers.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-01-25 10:42|| 2017-01-25 10:42|| Front Page Top

#4 What is comparative literature?

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-01-25 11:13|| 2017-01-25 11:13|| Front Page Top

#5 What is comparative literature?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-01-25 11:22|| 2017-01-25 11:22|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought all these people were big science Believers, not science Deniers?

Posted by Bobby 2017-01-25 13:02|| 2017-01-25 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Not that I had really thought about subscribing to the Atlantic anyway...but this certainly removes any thoughts of buying their product now and in the future.

Posted by Tom 2017-01-25 13:36|| 2017-01-25 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 scientist make whopping mistakes too

for example, this link, goes to a retraction from Hematological Ontology which retracts a recommended therapeutic procedure which, if followed, would be uniformly fatal.

Posted by lord garth 2017-01-25 14:19|| 2017-01-25 14:19|| Front Page Top

#9 The "experts" ain't.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-01-25 15:19|| 2017-01-25 15:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Mods, I'm terribly about the size of that picture. I'm sure I put a limit on the width and I even previewed it before I hit the submit button.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-01-25 15:52|| 2017-01-25 15:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Apology appreciated, dear Abu Uluque, though I had nothing to do with fixing it. When I took a look width was set to 450. Perhaps preview the thing before posting?

Posted by trailing wife 2017-01-25 19:18|| 2017-01-25 19:18|| Front Page Top

#12 I demand an article on the poetry of Maya Angelou written by a plumber.

It would be way better than anything Moira Weigel could write on science -- or on literature for that matter.

Posted by charger 2017-01-25 19:41|| 2017-01-25 19:41|| Front Page Top

#13 I dunno just about any plumber or roto rooter operator could probably write better poetry than that woman...why anyone thinks she is a literary giant never bothered to read any of the classics...no wait...its just this politically correct stuff...anything a black woman can write has to be considered on the same level as Hemingway or George Sand (who was a woman with a nomme d'plume)

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-25 19:57|| 2017-01-25 19:57|| Front Page Top

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