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Re:University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving... by ycjim on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:17PM (#21317478)
Seriously? Washington Times has mixed factual reporting, not reliable: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-times/
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Re:University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving... by protomyth on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:20PM (#21317528)
And I am to trust a site called Media Bias / Fact Check website because?
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Re:University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving... by ceejayoz on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:22PM (#21317550)
That site isn't much to write home about.

That said, the Washington Times' bias issues aren't a secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times#Political...

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Re:University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving... by dragontamer on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:23PM (#21317559)
Washington Times is well known to be far-right. With that being said, I'm confident that a good discussion would prove the worthiness of the article one way or the other.
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Re:University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving... by CharlesColeman on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:22PM (#21317551)
> Media Bias / Fact Check

That website is garbage, it's just some amateurs slapping ratings on things. It should not be treated as authoritative in any way.

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Re:University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving... by viraptor on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:24PM (#21317577)
Because they list and link to the reasoning behind their opinion. You can read the sources and any extra information and form your own. This is not simply "we think it's bad, trust us".
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Re:University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving... by not_a_cop75 on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:26PM (#21317599)
Honestly, trust this is bad because we said so is not a logical response. At least hot link to the opinion of why.
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Re:University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving... by happytoexplain on Monday October 21, 2019 @07:02PM (#21318517)
The link seems to say more than "this is bad because we said so".
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Re:University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving... by andymockli on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:37PM (#21317722)
The "Analysis/Bias" section of Washington Times basically boils down to: founded by religious people, uses language and SEO that they don't like, and publishes articles from scientists they don't like. I don't consider Washington Times as a paper of record necessarily, but I do think fact-checking is a much harder problem than people are willing to grant and the evidence listed in that section wasn't very edifying.
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