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- Lessons in Science and Spin https://undark.org/article/cornelia-dean-making-sense-of-science/ 7 comments
- Secrets of the GOP science war: How spin-masters and pundits confuse conservatives about facts http://www.salon.com/2015/10/03/secrets_of_the_gop_science_war_how_spin_masters_and_pundits_confuse_conservatives_about_facts/ 22 comments politics
- Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of the modern science fiction classic Spin by Robert Charles Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2612s&v=GVjaNsCckVA 6 comments books
- Pesticide Industry ‘Helped Write’ Disinformation Playbook Used by Big Oil and Big Tobacco, Report Reveals. New analysis sheds light on key tactics Monsanto used to distort science and spin the narrative in defense of its herbicide product. https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/pesticide-industry-helped-write-disinformation-playbook-used-by-big-oil-and-big-tobacco-report-reveals/ 4 comments environment
- Ancient galaxy’s spin suggests universe’s first stars quickly coalesced into disks | Science https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-galaxy-s-spin-suggests-universe-s-first-stars-quickly-coalesced-disks 19 comments space
- The science of spin: targeted strategies to manufacture doubt with detrimental effects on environmental and public health (climate change, coal pollution, tobacco, sugar, endocrine disruptors, & atrazine) https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-021-00723-0 5 comments science
- Megapixels: Behold this giant spinning ice disk | Popular Science https://www.popsci.com/megapixels-giant-spinning-ice-disk?y3p3g30ekkzieeg7.16 4 comments science
- Groundbreaking Science Emerges from Ultra-Close Orbits of Saturn. Nanometer-size particles abound, organics raining from rings to planet, electric currents connecting rings and planet, and alignment between Saturn’s magnetic field and spin axis. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7251 8 comments space
- The universe’s brightest supernova may be something much more exciting: a spinning, star-eating black hole | Science http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/universe-s-brightest-supernova-may-be-something-much-more-exciting-spinning-star-eating 96 comments science
- How Big Sugar Ushered In a New Era of Anti-Science Corporate PR The original spin doctors weren't working for Big Tobacco. They were representing sugar. http://www.alternet.org/food/how-big-sugar-ushered-new-era-anti-science-corporate-pr?akid=12882.8621.uihb6a&rd=1&src=newsletter1033126&t=15 3 comments science
- NASA lets us watch the Sun spin for 3 years in 4 minute video | Science! http://www.geek.com/science/nasa-lets-us-watch-the-sun-spin-for-3-years-in-4-minute-video-1553127/ 102 comments science
- The following is not a futuristic scenario. It is not science fiction. It is a demonstration of the capabilities of GIS to model the results of an extremely unlikely, yet intellectually fascinating query: What would happen if the earth stopped spinning? http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0610/nospin.html 3 comments technology
- Spin, science and climate change Action on climate is justified, not because the science is certain, but precisely because it is not http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15720419 12 comments science
- Trust Us, We're Experts: The Science of Spin and how industry dupes Americans into believing almost anything http://www.rense.com/general12/believe.htm 2 comments reddit.com