There’s a video going around that purportedly shows Nancy Pelosi drunk or unwell, answering a question about Trump in a slow and slurred way. It turns out that it is slowed down, and that the original video shows her quite engaged and articulate. Two things about this. The first is that our four moves (SIFT)… Continue reading

I have so much writing backlogged I need to get a few quick hits out to clear the logjam. Here’s a good example of a statistical false frame that’s visual enough for a slide. It says “Washington Post” on the bottom there, but of course the Washington Post version lacks the “presidential term” markers. When… Continue reading

The Four Moves have undergone some tweaking since I first introduced them in early 2017. The language has shifted, been refined. We’ve come to see that lateral reading is more of a principle underlying at least two of the moves (maybe three). We’ve removed a reference to “go upstream” which was a bit geeky. All… Continue reading

Sam prides himself on questioning conventional wisdom and subjecting claims to intellectual scrutiny. For kids today, that means Googling stuff. One might think these searches would turn up a variety of perspectives, including at least a few compelling counterarguments. One would be wrong. The Google searches flooded his developing brain with endless bias-confirming “proof” to… Continue reading