csi_yellowknife: facepalm.jpg

The flatulence talk didn't originate from Fox News, but I don't expect PZ Myers to know that. That would require integrity and research, and outside of his professional work that is not possible for him.

Here's BBC Nature, (who also talked to the Journal authors):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17953792

Microbes in the stomachs of "ruminant" species produce methane gas as they break down vegetable matter which is released as flatulence

Damn that Murdoch!!! His special Koch-fueled powers have let him get into the BBC journalists' minds. Find the tinfoil, PZ - you're next!

Gotta love people who blame FOXNews (or if you're Internet-clever, FauxNews) for stories they didn't create and didn't initially propagate.

You are a complete moron. Read the thread instead of just checking off talking points on your FOX Arguing with The Libs checklist.

Splinshints: I'd like to think nobody would be dumb enough to read or watch anything Murdoch owns at all, but my desires on the matter don't seem to conform very well to reality.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the global public. That's why I bought shares of Newscorp when the hacking scandal broke knowing that they would eventually come back after the panic selloff. Up 20%. If only there were a way I could invest directly in Transformers movies. Really get in on the stupid gravy train.

You mean Fox News would want to make climate change seem like a silly problem we shouldn't think about? I don't believe it.


/waiting for "dino farts" to become the default reply when Republicans hear about climate change.

Terrydatroll: Fixed most of that for ya.

I always wonder about people like you who create "troll" accounts. Do you really not have anything better to do with your time?

WizardofToast: You say that as if Fox believes in global warming/dinosaurs/reality.

Fox News believes in whatever makes money for Fox News. They don't push a crazy, right-wing agenda because they're crazy right-wingers, they push a crazy, right-wing agenda because crazy, right-wingers are willing to pay to hear it.

People have tried the same on the left and it just doesn't seem to work nearly as well (Air America, I'm looking in your general direction).

Conservatives are close-minded, rigid and unthinking. They actively avoid new information that may not conform to preconceived notions because they believe strongly that everything is as it always has been and always will be. As such, they're a ripe target for malicious misinformation-for-profit campaigns. I have little doubt that if liberals were equally dull-witted that Murdoch would create a media arm catering to them. Since they're not, there's no profit in it, so he won't.

/ in before "b-b-b-but MSNBC!" as if there's any equivalency

SkunkWerks: csi_yellowknife: The flatulence talk didn't originate from Fox News

And?

Fact-checking. How does it work?

And before you say that lots of other news media does this. I know. And they should learn to do this too.

Or, maybe they shouldn't have forgotten how to do this?

Somewhere along the line, you see, we've decided that news is really meant to be entertainment, and doesn't therefore need to be, yanno, an accurate representation of reality. No, it's not just Fox News, but Fox News happens to be one of the more loud and obnoxious perpetrators, not to mention one of the earliest and most influential starters of this backslide of journalistic integrity- on ALL sides of the political spectrum.

Also, National Geographic is a crap publication. At least to anyone with any serious inclinations towards scientific inquiry. Has been more or less since it's inception. It's got all the empirical value of a children's picture book. This is not a revelation you're having.

And beyond ALL that...He, and all the other 'tards going "LOOK BBC/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/HUFFPO DID IT TOO! GLOBAL WARMING IS FAAAAAAAAKE' deliberately fail to notice that the issue isn't 'dino farts warmed the planet', it's 'Fox said that scientists said dino farts caused their extinction', which is nowhere in the other articles, and is bullshiat.

theorellior: In before walls of green text celebrating the fount of meteorological and paleontological knowledge that is the Urantia Book.

I don't get people who don't block that guy. Even if he wasn't a dumbass, the green text is annoying as hell. Do you have something against the ignore list?

JRoo: Everyone at Fox News knows that dinosaurs never existed in the first place because they were buried by Satan to fool humans into believing in evolution and that the Earth is more than 6000 years old.

This is what I was thinking. Fox News went out on a limb with this story....they just pissed off 1/2 of their viewers.

dosboot: Just another chance for libtards to bash Fox News while failing to apply the same standards to:

MSNBC

National Geographic

Huffington Post

ABC News

BBC

Selective outrage is stupid

Were you dropped on your head as a child?

csi_yellowknife: The flatulence talk didn't originate from Fox News, but I don't expect PZ Myers to know that.

Know how I know you didn't RTFA?

dosboot: Just another chance for libtards to bash Fox News while failing to apply the same standards to:

MSNBC

National Geographic

Huffington Post

ABC News

BBC

Selective outrage is stupid

RTFT, twit. 'Warmed the planet' != 'Caused their extinction'.

/Funny how your post is almost identical to beefoe's. Alt? Or just get the same memo?

dosboot: Just another chance for libtards to bash Fox News while failing to apply the same standards to:

MSNBC

National Geographic

Huffington Post

ABC News

BBC

Selective outrage is stupid

How many of those articles claim dinosaurs caused their own extinction?

SlothB77: Please ignore articles like this from 2008, as Fox News is trying to discredit science in 2012 and none of those other articles about cows farting causing global warming that preceded it do not exist.

It looks like Argentina has figured out a way to collect a new fuel source, I just wonder if a cow produces enough methane in their lifetime to cook all the steaks, burgers, chili, roast beef, ribs, and/or heat milk to pasteurization levels?

/intelligent design...

I'd like to think nobody would be dumb enough to read or watch anything Murdoch owns at all, but my desires on the matter don't seem to conform very well to reality.