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Comment Gleick lied not leaked; main document is forgery (Score 0, Informative) 442

Gleick has confessed to lying to obtain the documents; they were not leaked. You have to work inside an organization to leak documents, like the original ClimateGate emails. Megan McCardle of the Atlantic makes a strong case that the main document is forged.
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Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time 362

Posted by Soulskill from the new-is-relative dept.
sfraggle writes "Kotaku has an interesting review of Doom (the original!) by Stephen Totilo, a gamer and FPS player who, until a few days ago, had gone through the game's 17-year history without playing it. He describes some of his first impressions, the surprises that he encountered, and how the game compares to modern FPSes. Quoting: 'Virtual shotgun armed, I was finally going to play Doom for real. A second later, I understood the allure the video game weapon has had. In Doom the shotgun feels mighty, at least partially I believe because they make first-timers like me wait for it. The creators make us sweat until we have it in hand. But once we have the shotgun, its big shots and its slow, fetishized reload are the floored-accelerator-pedal stuff of macho fantasy. The shotgun is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he'd like to have some impact. The shotgun is the punch in the face the once-scrawny boy on the beach gives the bully when he returns a muscled linebacker.'"

Comment Casual revisionist lie (Score 1) 508

by motionview (#27106641) Attached to: Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work
Contrary to the AP's deceptive headline and mis-understanding or mis-reporting of the recent history of stem cell research, Obama is actually reversing the Clinton ban on federal funding of stem cell research. George Bush removed the ban on federal funding of stem cell research for a limited number of cell lines. It was Clinton, not Bush, that banned federal funding of all stem cell research. Clinton. I realize that many people believe that if you just repeat a lie often enough it is as good as the truth, but this is supposed to be a skeptical readership. Want to believe Bush is evil? Fine. There are many things you can say to make that point that are true. This is not one fo them. Bill Clinton banned federal funding of stem cell research, not George Bush.

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