Bill Nye challenges and has some Choice Words for Todd Akin

I'm a little relieved it's a parody site. Not that I think a doof like Akin doesn't deserve to be smacked down with SCIENCE~!, but some of the ableist language they purported to Nye had me cringing...

Easy way to tell if a "news" site is satire news is to check to see if their name has a food item in it. Daily Currant, The Onion, etc.

Satiric news sites are proliferating like crazy on the web. It's getting so that every time someone links an article where someone says something outrageous or crazy sounding, even if it's plausible, I check the date (to see if it's April 1) and then the rest of the articles on said site. Likewise for anything that seems too good to be true (people were passing something where JK Rowling admitted her attempts at mainstream fiction were flops and allegedly said she was retuning to what she did best and writing another HP book after all, and fans were getting all excited, but the date was April 1).

The scary thing is, how often some of the crazy, ignorant things politicians say about science, sex, women's issues etc. turn out to be what they really said and how close the satiric articles often are to reality.

It may be a parody site, but I wouldn't be surprised if Nye secretly wishes he had really said those things.

He probably muttered them at some point in time. s6

I want that rant story to be true with every fiber of my being.

Now pardon me, but it's time I straighten my invisible bow tie and leave the set.

benbradley said:

Apple dot com?

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Well, Apple isn't "news"; it's a company selling a product which they hope you will treat seriously. The Onion and Daily Currant on the other hand, are clearly fake news, and my rule of thumb is that if a news site name is in the same "style" (food related) as them, it's probably satire.

I usually read the comments (as loathe as I generally am to read comments). If there's some troll berating people for taking the story seriously, then I'll assume it's a satiric site.