Skeptics Lampoon Hawley: Missouri senator’s manly virtues book delights jesters & satirists
When Josh Hawley debated Sen. Claire McCaskill in the 2018 U.S. Senate contest, he unleashed the usual invective against the……
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In age of disinformation, newspaper political endorsements should be embraced, not abandoned
In early October, Alden Global Capital instructed the newspapers it owns to stop endorsing for major political offices after this……
A tangled web of St. Louisans in the Jan. 6 insurrection
Many of the St. Louisans who played roles in fomenting the Jan. 6 insurrection had relationships with one another and……
Police misconduct biggest single cause of 2,900 wrongful convictions
Police misconduct is a leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. Just over 2,900 people have been exonerated……
Facebook v. Science
By BEN LYONS / Social media have helped us cocoon ourselves into comfortable ignorance of “the other side” — so goes the prevailing notion of the last few years, since Facebook has been king. A team of researchers at Facebook published an article Thursday that claimed to detail how much the site contributes to political echo chambers or filter-bubbles. Published in the journal Science, their report claimed Facebook’s blackbox newsfeed algorithm weeded out some disagreeable content from readers’ feeds, but not as much as did their personal behavior. A flurry of criticism came from other social scientists, with one, University of Michigan’s Christian Sandvig, calling it Facebook’s “it’s not our fault” study.