Clearinghouse Proposal

mmiller@pcsia.com
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:27:54 -0500

Given the halftruth nature of many press releases that have graced our list
and " the long Shelf-life " of these halftruths as one list member put it,
I was wondering if any site was following these bits of agricultural
doublespeak and offering critical reasoned responses? Misha recently
mentioned this type of site for economic analysis at :

http://www.fair.org/err/index.html

but I am wondering if there is an equivalent site that keeps track of the
Fib of the Day from the "life science" industry?

Several people have offered very elegant and reasoned rebuttals to some of
these pieces of spin. What is needed is a place to collect and edit this
information into a format that is useful to the person who suspects a half
truth but does not have the information to expose the spinmeister that some
list members have.

Does anybody know of such a site? Is any existing site or organization
interesting in adding such a feature?

Mike Miller

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