--- quoting the Argus Leader story of Archimedes Plutonium ---
http://m.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080629/VOICES/806290324/1161/CUSTOMER06&template=wapart
On the streets of Vermillion, people call him Archie.
In Meckling, where he lives, children call him Bee Man as he walks
through town in a beekeeper's suit. But he keeps no bees.
And online, where he is internationally famous, mathematicians and
scientists call him a kook, a crank and a nuisance.
--- end quoting ---
Now I want to focus on this opening paragraph, not only because I
never wore a beekeeper's suit, but
I never owned one, and never touched one. I do have many mosquito net
jackets like the ones
fishermen wear in the wilds and creeks and streams to keep the
mosquitos at bay. I wear a mosquito
jacket over a T-****rt whenever I anticipate swarms while mowing or
working near wooded areas.
There is a family with children in Meckling and asked them today
whether they talked with the newsre****ter
from Argus Leader, and they told me they were "not present" when the
Argus Leader newsman
talked with their parent. So maybe the news re****ter got it mixed up,
and that he had talked with
some children in Vermillion.
Or, maybe the re****ter simply does not know the difference between a
bee-suit and a mosquito
jacket.
Anyway, the compounding of errors of fact in the first paragraph is
rather ridiculuous. Are journalists
these days vying for how many bad mistakes they can make in the first
paragraph of a story of a
scientist?
It is easy for me to explain why the error filled story. I wrote a
factual piece as to why an oil refinery
is out of place in South Dakota, and to get back at Archimedes
Plutonium, a story on him was set
up to make me look like some kook who wears a bee-suit in the middle
of summer in Vermillion when
that is a falsehood.
Some people may say, so what. So who cares whether it was kids in
Vermillion or kids in Meckling
or whether the re****ter made it all up. Who cares whether it is a bee-
suit or a mosquito jacket. Well
I care because I am a scientist and live by the truth and facts and if
journalism in the USA boils down to painting pictures for ulterior
motives rather than
describing facts and information, then the USA has very lousy
journalism.
Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
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