I just received an email about my last post, expressing the sentiment that there is nothing funny about the situation in which the landfill neighbors find themselves.
I heartily agree with that sentiment, and I explained to the sender that I was being sarcastic.
For one, in my (should be well-known) opinion, FoxNews is garbage and for two, I thought the last line about the whole thing being (not) definitive made it clear I thought it was rubbish.
And for three, it just goes to show how a "study" can be taken seriously just because it was published in a journal. I used to be the managing editor of a clinical journal, and I can tell you a study with that small and narrow a study group would never have appeared on its pages.
In any case, I apologize to anyone who took offense and/or thought I was saying the neighbors have nothing to complain about. It was certainly not meant that way.
7 comments:
it wasn't a foxnews story, it was a sun story. good try though...
I, for one, understood what you meant. Just yesterday, I read an article (in the Times?) that reported the results of some study that showed that many people don't understand sarcasm.
Even better, Fox News, a Rupert Murdoch Production, quoting The Sun, a Rupert Murdoch Production, quoting the PNAS, which has itself been criticized in the past for releasing articles to the press before they are available to the scientific community for review and comment.
Not unlike another common trick of claiming, say, the New York Times as a source for a quote that was in a letter to the Editor or an op-ed.
Sorry, Anonymous, but FoxNews picked up the story. That excerpt was from its website, verbatim.
That's like claiming an AP story they run on their site is "theirs"
Hey, how come you haven't posted anything since Monday?
Hey, are you on vacation? Why a whole week with no new posts?
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