Garbage in, garbage out is how it works with a computer. Its no different with society: Misinformation yields misunderstandings and the adoption of misguided policy, personal and political.
The following are 10 liberal myths even many conservatives believe. How many did you know were commonly accepted fake news, fallacies or false history?
Not according to research. As Peter Schweizer reported in Dont listen to the liberalsRight-wingers really are nicer people, latest research shows, relative to conservatives liberals are:
Studies also show liberals are less happy. Any idea why?
Whether its the dystopian 1973 film Soylent Green, Paul Ehrlichs book The Population Bomb or something else, the modern psyche has been infused with Malthusian assumptions about inexorably increasing populations. The reality?
With fertility rates already below replacement level (2.1 children per woman) in approximately 100 nations, demographers say that while global population will reach about nine billion in 2050, it will begin declining quickly thereafter.
According to Pew Research Center, atheists, agnostics and those claiming no particular religion will actually lose population share over the next few decades. For faith begets fecundity: The secular are just not as likely to be fruitful and multiply.
As I demonstrated in 2014 using data from liberal Mother Jones, non-Hispanic whites commit mass murder at just about the rate their population share (currently 62 percent) would suggest. Dont expect this myth to stop being a media meme, though.
Actually, according to Charol Shakeshaft, the researcher of a little-remembered 2004 study prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests, reported LifeSite News in 2010.
Its not surprising people assume otherwise, however. Consider: Californias 61 largest newspapers published almost 2,000 stories in the first half of 2002 about the Church scandaland only four about the ongoing public-school scandal.
History says otherwise. Whether the handiwork of Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Tamerlane, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, the Vikings, Hitler or someone else, warfares motivation was virtually always lust for land, wealth, resources, power and/or glorynot religious zeal.
According to Providence College professor Anthony Esolen in this PragerU video, medieval Europeans:
Professor Esolen states that the period was not the Dark Ages but the Brilliant Ages.
While conservatives are generally skeptical of the anthropogenic global-warming thesis, often they dont realize that increased atmospheric CO2 is actually beneficial. Botanists pump the gas into greenhouses because it facilitates plant growth. Why do you think the Mesozoic eras CO2 levelsfive to 10 times todaysyielded lush foliage?
A CO2-rich world is a green world.
On the contrary, the Crusades were actually European wars of survival designed to repel Muslim armies. As Thomas Madden, chair of the History Department at Saint Louis University,put it, the Crusades were not the brainchild of an ambitious pope or rapacious knights but a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense.
Actually, judicial supremacy is not in the Constitution. Rather, the power was declared by the judiciary itself, notably in the 1803 Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court decision.
Since nothing in the Constitution dictates presidents must be constrained by judicial opinions, its not surprising they havent always felt compelled to be: Presidents Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln both ignored court rulings during their administrations.
Reality is like a jigsaw puzzle: You cant see the big picture without assembling enough pieces. And with untruths where facts should be, our puzzle remains puzzling at bestand presents a twisted image of ideology at worst.
Selwyn Duke (@SelwynDuke)has written for The Hill, The American Conservative, WorldNetDaily and American Thinker. He has also contributed to college textbooks published by Gale Cengage Learning, has appeared on television and is a frequent guest on radio.
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