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A new (supposedly) NASA-funded study postulating that aliens may attack humans over climate change had all the ingredients for a perfect Fox faux controversy — it bolstered their anti-science narrative, painted their opponents as clownish radicals, and highlighted wasteful government spending on a supposedly liberal cause.

Fox reported the “news from NASA” several times several times today, presenting it as official “taxpayer funded research.” A chyron on Fox and Friends read: “NASA: Global warming may provoke an alien attack.”

But as Business Insider pointed out, they’re “wrong” — “That report was not funded by NASA. It was written by an independent group of scientists and bloggers. One of those happens to work at NASA.” NASA distanced itself from the report as well, calling reports linking the agency to it “not true.” Host Megyn Kelly finally corrected the record this afternoon, saying, “I was making that up.”

But before she did, she...directed her viewers to complete a poll on her website which asked how we should respond to the study:

(a) “Immediately increase efforts to curb greenhouse gases”
(b) “Develop weapons to kill the Aliens FIRST”
(c) “Direct scientists to stop researching climate change and instead research how to create jobs.”

Not surprisingly, most suggested they research something else (c). But more than six times as many respondents (19 percent to 3 percent) said we should focus on building weapons to kill aliens before curbing greenhouse gases...

Numerous studies consistently show that Fox viewers are among the most misinformed of news viewers, while at least one study has shown that — perversely — watching Fox actually makes people less informed than they were to begin with.

“Trust me folks, this story is hard to understand,” Fox and Friends host Gretchen Carlson said of the “NASA study.” Indeed.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto

Fox Viewers Overwhelmingly Think We Should Prepare For Alien Invasion Before Fighting Climate Change

Sometimes I don't know which is worse, Fox or Think Progress...

she directed her viewers to complete a poll on her website which asked how we should respond to the study:

[image]http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FoxAlienPoll.jpg[/image]

I take that back. This time, Think Progress is worse.

K.

In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, plans to award some lucky, ambitious and star-struck organization roughly $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take — organizationally, technically, sociologically and ethically — to send humans to another star, a challenge of such magnitude that the study alone could take a hundred years.

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“If you want to have a hobby, why can’t it be designing an interstellar spacecraft?” said Andreas Tziolas, who teaches at the University of Alaska and directs Project Icarus, a worldwide volunteer effort to design a spacecraft that could carry a scientific probe to a nearby star — perhaps Alpha Centauri, 4.4 light-years from here — in a trip that would take less than 100 years.

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ORIGINAL: HannahLynHeather

i began to suspect that in your fleabagger thread, where only one lefty <the fucking uber-lefty syph at that> seemed get that it was funny. i wouldn't go so far as to say this is confirmation, but it is certain corroborating evidence.

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ORIGINAL: HannahLynHeather

well yea, we canadians are fucking funny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_comedians

and that list doesn't include any of our fucking politicians either - think jean chretien and keep a straight face, i dare you