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BuzzFeed News also lost credibility to me during the Trump administration, when the Mueller team publicly disputed the outlet's report on a Cohen-Trump story. From The New Yorker […

> "If I search some review I scroll past all of the official review sites and find some random nobody who appears to be expressing their own experiences." That strategy has been ta…

In this case though, Weiner did not "literally name" the informant in The New York Times article [1]. He referred to the informant as a "retired terrorist" without giving a name. I…

I read the show notes but didn't listen to the podcast. Is this really true? The linked New York Times article by Weiner never names the subject, but instead reports on a "retired …

Alternatively, through a very pragmatic lens: the interviewee is essentially saying that a military does not want unpredictable troops that violate rules of engagement, because it …

Because it encourages recruits to cheat and hide things from leadership (instead of the only the adversary), and increases the risk of death. In the military, one of the values is …

There was also an interesting discussion on the r/navyseals forum, frequented by applicants and veterans, which corroborates the steroid use (looks credible, with a pinch of salt a…

The recruits believe it's a treatment for a lung condition where you cough up blood during training. From the NYTimes article: "Many men were coughing up bloody fluid from a condit…

It's probably lifestyle inflation ( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lifestyle-inflation.asp ), where spending increased in proportion or in excess to rises in income. A surgeo…

They weren't meant to be. I presented Nietzsche's views as evidence that there is significant writing against objective concepts of good and evil, then provided counter-arguments t…

You sound like someone involved in the field. If this is the case, I may see where you're coming from in terms of arguing for perfectionism, thoroughness, and notability. However, …

I'm not a philosopher or a Nietzsche expert, but Nietzsche wrote about this at length in his book "Beyond Good and Evil." It's been a while since I read the book (surface-level Wik…

I'm an outsider, but to quote credible external sources, Science AAAS writer Derek Lowe documented that the biotech startup scene was large and relatively easier to get investments…

>"they were probably understating the problem" The authors' claim wasn't to give a comprehensive figure of the number of electrocuted birds that caused wildfires, in a specific reg…

There is nothing wrong at all with the segments of the article you quoted. The main premise presented in the article is that electrocuted birds are a plausible cause of wildfires, …

Instagram can have useful business purposes. Some personal trainers/consultants/very small businesses only have an Instagram account, and seem to be doing well. Canada's public bro…

Yeah, unfortunately multiple reports of the impersonator's account doesn't work in practice, even though it really should. Another source confirming this is from the Bleeping Compu…

>"For someone like me that has never had an Insta account nor have I logged into my FB account for over 8 years, how does one create an account without this happening?" This is spe…

Not to defend the practice (because your case is a false positive for a new account), but rather to speculate on why your account was banned, it's likely due to an increase in impe…

[Another] user finally ended the game with victory in 2019, seven years since the submitted post: https://www.reddit.com/r/theeternalwar/comments/aefvp0/the_a... Edit: Sorry, I was…

>"science is large enough and has enough history that it doesn't need the 24 hour news cycle to be interesting. In the sense that what you already know is news to most people, you …

I'm not the same commenter, but I completely agree from previous experience in journalism. Many journalists who write about research findings are in the same publications who publi…