EPA: Expect More Radiation in Rainwater

[SidDithers]

9. 5 Easy Ways to Spot a B.S. News Story on the Internet

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-easy-ways-to-spot-b.s.-news-story-internet/

Oh, and do you still recognize Forbes as the highbrow magazine for investor types? Because guess what: Their website now hosts hundreds of unedited blogs from random, often unpaid writers off the street (http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/173743/what-the-forbes-model-of-contributed-content-means-for-journalism/ ).

Seriously, you can write for them if you want (http://blogs.forbes.com/help/how-do-i-become-a-contributor/ ). So now any time you see a Forbes.com story and the URL has "sites/(some dude's name here)" in the middle, you're not reading a news story from professional Forbes reporters/editors, you're reading a blog post from some random person.

That's why you can see a "Forbes" article claiming that a majority of scientists doubt global warming (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/02/13/peer-reviewed-survey-finds-majority-of-scientists-skeptical-of-global-warming-crisis/ ) -- in reality, it's a press release written by a shill for the Heartland Institute, an oil-industry-funded group that ran billboards comparing environmentalists to serial killers (http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/09/local/la-me-gs-unabomber-billboard-continues-to-hurt-heartland-institute-20120509 ).

Remember, there's a lot of money to be made from bullshit -- that traffic pays the same as any, and they're getting very good at tricking us into doing their promotional work for them. And that goes double if ...

The OP would have you believe that the author of the blog is writer for Forbes:

Jeff McMahon
Forbes March 28, 2011

When, in fact, they're nothing more than a "contributor", which you or I could also be if we wanted to be.

Sid