"Stop eating fish. It’s the only way to save the life in our seas" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/09/seas-stop-eating-fish-fishing-industry-government, The Guardian, 9 May 2019.
“The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.”
“The less important an issue is, the more time managers spend discussing it.”
Source: 2000s, A little book of f-laws: 13 common sins of management, 2006, p. 16, bold text cited in: Gerald Haigh (2008) Inspirational, and Cautionary Tales for Would-be School Leaders. p. 142.
Context: The less important an issue is, the more time managers spend discussing it. More time is spent on small talk than is spent on large talk. Most talk is about what matters least. What matters least is what most of us know most about.
“Our government has the weirdest bias against cannabis.”
There's no reason for everybody to be so afraid of it. It's not the antichrist the DEA makes it out to be. Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. And government has no business telling us what we can and can't use for pain relief.
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think http://lesswrong.com/lw/jx/we_change_our_minds_less_often_than_we_think/ (October 2007)
Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 80
“Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“The bias of each medium of communication is far more distorting than the deliberate lie.”
JQ. Journalism quarterly, Volume 50, Association for Education in Journalism, 1973, p. 145
1970s
We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (2009)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
