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by Greg Mayer Jerry and I have lamented here at WEIT the decline of The New York Times, including its descent into woke ideology and pseudoscience. But we have noted some encouraging shifts in the position of the editorial board, even if they are sometimes confused, and the odious Dean Baquet is stepping down as … Continue reading A new New York Times opinion columnist
Well, well, well. . . here we have a big article from the New York Times that touts ghosts, implicitly assumes that they exist and haunt houses, and tells readers how to live with them. Save for one barely noticeable caveat about naturalistic explanations for one “ghostly” phenomenon, you will find no doubt about ghosts, … Continue reading New York Times touts ghosts
Here’s an exchange I had with a reader in the comments section of my recent post, “Curmudgeon sees John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ as a harmful song.” I was surprised that there were nearly 100 comments on what I thought was a pretty uncontroversial post. But one never knows what can get readers worked up: I stand … Continue reading Yes, Virginia, the New York Times is woke
UPDATE: Here’s what my primary-care physician, Dr. Alex Lickerman, says about the diagnosis of “glioma” below: Glioma is a broad term used to delineate all types of primary brain tumors. The prognosis varies tremendously from type to type, with glioblastoma multiforme being the worst. You need a biopsy to determine which kind it is. Not … Continue reading The New York Times touts religious miracles as proof of God
I’m posting this new NYT article not because it shows that Jesuits are engaged in science, which is well known (there’s an observatory in the Vatican), but because of “lesson” the paper draws from this fact, a lesson outlined by me in red in the subheadline below. Jesuit astronomers show that science and religion are … Continue reading The New York Times touts a fake amity between science and religion
It’s things like this that give me hope that the left-wing but mainstream media—especially the NYT, which I thought had gone hopelessly woke—might regain its objectivity, at least in reporting, and also stop slanting their news towards getting social-media approbation. Until recently, I thought the NYT’s coverage of transsexual and transgender issues had not been … Continue reading A new online battle between the New York Times and trans activists
by Greg Mayer The New York Times has a data analysis division which they call The Upshot; I think they created it to compensate for the loss of Nate Silver’s 538, which was once hosted by the Times. The Upshot reporters and analysts tend to be policy wonks with some statistical savvy, so I took … Continue reading The New York Times might have used Bayes’ Theorem
When reader Linda sent me this link from the respected magazine The Nation (free read; click on screenshot below), I was delighted, thinking that writer Dan Froomkin was going to call out the NYT for its one-sided ultraprogressive Leftism that has begun seeping into its news coverage as well as having led to the newsroom’s … Continue reading The Nation calls for a reformation of the New York Times
by Greg Mayer Another sign of the New York Times‘ decline, besides its wokism and suddenly keen interest in astrology, is its attention to celebrity culture. (I use that last word with some hesitation.) This is mere persiflage, but after sharing my thoughts about this with Jerry, he urged me to post it on a … Continue reading The New York Times sinks even deeper
JAC: Greg has another installment in his continuing series on the New York Times’s 1619 project. Readers please note that this is Greg’s piece, not mine. ______________________ by Greg Mayer As they have since it was published last year, the folks at the World Socialist Website (WSWS) continue to lead in the critique of the … Continue reading The annals of the 1619 debacle at the New York Times
