]]>An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Media has no idea of what science (or anything) is. They just want an interesting story to sell their newspaper.
Not all of them are necessarily ignorant; some do know what they’re writing about. However, most (if not all) of them like to twist words around to make their story seem more sensational than it is.
Some years ago I saw a story entitled “McDonald’s sued for making their coffee too hot”. I thought: Hang on! Coffee is supposed to be hot. How could anyone be be sued for making their coffee too hot? I read the story, and it turned out that what McDonald’s were sued for was not making their coffee too hot but poor design of their coffee cups, which made the coffee in them spill easily, leading to third-degree burns to the person who successfully sued the company. This is an example of how the press can make an ordinary story sound extraordinary by using words misleadingly.
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Looks like the first bit of intelligent journalism in ohh, about 100 years. Much better than their continued coverage of how much ole Bill G. is worth or the latest fashion trend painted on some rock star bimbo.
]]>We are messing up the argument between atheist, gay marriage and Human Development Index?
Basically, what is the point we are trying to make?
]]>The small population means they do not have to police or feed or provide jobs. If they had as many people as my country does then ...
I bet there are more atheists living here then in both countries combined.
]]>Norway is the most religious out of the 3 countries
Then how can they be atheists?
Wikipedia gives a breakdown of about 83 % of the country being Christian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Norway
Norway has about 5 million people and Sweden about 10 million. It is easy to see with populations that small that there are not many problems. This is probably the reason for the high standard of living. NYC when I lived there had more people than either Sweden or Norway in an area 1000 times smaller!
]]>I agree.
atheism:definition
a : a disbelief in the existence of deity
b : the doctrine that there is no deity
While it is true that it would be very difficult to belong to a religion and be an atheist, one could not be affiliated with any religion and still not be an atheist.
]]>What I am saying is that there is probably no correlation between atheism and prosperity.
I agree. Religion is a private thing.
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