> FWIW, if you tell people in the U.S. what the Bill of Rights guarantees > without telling them where it's coming from; that it's already a part > of > the Constitution - most of them will tell you you're crazy. > > More than half the people in the U.S. believe the Supreme Court > "outlawed prayer in school". > > [SCOTUS did not - what they they *did*, was tell the State of New York > that it could not prescribe a mandatory prayer and require that prayer > to be recited every day by every student, i.e. the government could not > REQUIRE prayer in school.]
there's an interesting story on similar lines of deliberate misconstrual in the weekly email I get from the extremist faction of the CTC, posted here because there's no external link. For reference, the Daily Mail is a right wing 'Little Englander' newspaper, full of vitriolic hatred for foreigners, lefties, feminists, cyclists in lycra, and anything else that doesn't evoke the image of pipe-smoking 1950s Imperial England and a mug of Horlicks. "Press leaps to conclusion on heart attack data Medical journal The Lancet has published the findings of a study into the triggers of heart attacks, ranking traffic and pollution midway through their list. The Daily Mail has seized on this to claim that cycling to work causes heart attacks. The newspaper's interpretation of the findings contradicts a previous study from Copenhagen which found that people who cycled to work had an all-cause mortality rate 40% lower than non-cyclists. While The Mail fails to point out that cycling helps prevent heart disease, it also neglects to mention that cycling offers a direct solution to traffic congestion and pollution - which are the trigger factors in question. Cycling England's last briefing on health and cycling is available here. " <http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2962296 -9/fulltext> <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1360091/Heart-attacks-Cycling-wor k-biggest-causes.html> <http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/160/11/1621> <http://www.dft.gov.uk/cyclingengland/site/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cyclin g_and_health_full_report.pdf> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
