The Winter 2005 issue of the Nieman Reports has many articles about the news coverage of Evolution and Global Warming. Both topics, of course, are ill served by the tradition of "he said, she said" which gives undue prominence to advocates from the Discovery and Competitive Enterprise Institutes. You can read the entire issue (5.8 MB PDF) or just the Intelligent Design section, the Global Warming section or the Global Warming section with multimedia (2.3MB PDF+QuickTime).
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HB 549, introduced by Rep. Joe Reed, has been referred to the state legislature's Natural Resources comittee:
I've mostly been taking it easy this week, since readership is way down during the holidays, and I'm stuck at home with my kids, who don't generally give me a lot of time for sitting
and reading math books. But I think I've finally got time to get back to the stuff
Effect Measure has a good post about the NIH granting process.
As the somewhat tongue in cheek Colbert Report on Comedy Central in the US asks;
"How does one report the facts in an unbiased way when the facts themselves are biased?
... its become all too clear that facts ... have an anti-Bush agenda."