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  • July 2008
    • Is Something Rotten in the Bard's Works?

      Is Something Rotten in the Bard's Works?

      (Newser) - Did William Shakespeare really write the plays attributed to him? The question remains the subject of an intense academic debate, NPR reports. Those who doubt the “man from Stratford” penned his plays point to a lame rhyming epitaph on the supposed bard’s headstone, and to lack of documents tying him to his works—or even suggesting he was a writer. More »

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      literature   theater   William Shakespeare   play   academics   skeptics

  • November 2007
    • Sham Study Tricks Climate Skeptics

      Sham Study Tricks Climate Skeptics

      (Newser) - Turns out undersea bacteria don’t cause global warming after all. But they were on trial for 70 minutes last week after a British prof's email chain linked to a sham study. Climate skeptics and conservatives—Rush Limbaugh included—trumpeted the study until a University of Colorado prof smelled something rotten. “Call me a skeptic skeptic—I smell a hoax,” he posted. More »

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      climate change   Rush Limbaugh   carbon dioxide   hoax   skeptics

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