More lies, damn lies and bad science from the Heartland Institute

Got another “scientific report” (read that with ‘finger quotes’) from the folks at the conservative thinktank The Heartland Institute. If you actually read my blog much (don’t worry, I have no illusions that anyone really does) you might remember an entry I made last December titled Lies, Damn Lies & the Heartland Institute (still love that title) when I got another report from them. I did some research then on who they were then since a quick glance at the letter and report they sent me then made me quite suspect as to the ‘real science’ it claimed to contain.

Just to recap, the the Heartland Institute is

“A nonprofit organization devoted to discovering, developing, and promoting free-market solutions to social and economic problems”.

Yeah those free-market solutions always do the best thing for society and making the world a better place. Capitalism is infallable.
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Faux SEO so so

Been having problems claiming this so in a desperate effort to make it work, here’s the technorati code AGAIN m35f2jpxk2

Nicholas Peterson, a friend from Antioch College, recently told me about a handy tool, website.grader.com, for doing some basic SEO analysis of websites. So I’ve been making minor tweaks of various sites to up their ranking lately and trying to get a grasp on the different sites they mention.

Finally decided to actually create an account on Technorati and in order to ‘claim my blog’ I need to post a link to my Technorati Profile. So there it is. Golly.