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For months, global warming skeptics have been touting The Great Global Warming Swindle as a balanced and fair counterpart to those calling for urgent action on the issue of climate change. In reality, The Swindle is a misleading, dishonest and ill-conceived work of propaganda that is chock full of paid industry mouth pieces while being anorexically thin on genuine evidence.

The Conscious Earth: The Death of The Great Global Warming Swindle

A new study linking marijuana to “psychotic illness” is out.

Using marijuana increases the risk of one day developing a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia, according to a study that provides some of the strongest evidence yet linking the drug to a mental disorder.

Smoking marijuana ups risk of schizophrenia: study

Very scary.

Looks like the Duke lacrosse team rape case was a horrible sham.

Michael B. Nifong, the former Durham County district attorney, acknowledged that “there is no credible evidence” that three Duke lacrosse players committed any of the crimes he accused them of more than a year ago, offering for the first time a complete and unqualified apology.

North Carolina: Ex-prosecutor Apologizes - New York Times

I mentioned the case once, as near as I can remember, in connection to a BlogsforBush post in which Mark Noonan blamed the whole she-bang on the Lib’rals. I didn’t take any kind of a stand on the rape case, but given the dramatic turn things have taken I thought an update would be nice.

… here in the Good Ole United States.

First, we’d never have this problem in the States. I mean, without the lawyers and the media and the trials and such, this guy wouldabeen locked up and good riddance. But, hell, you get the lawyers in there and pretty soon you get whining about ‘fabricating evidence’ and sloppy investigation and missing key evidence.

An Australian newspaper on Monday reported that police had written names of terror suspects in Haneef’s personal diary prior to interrogating the Indian doctor.

Haneef’s lawyer sought an explanation and said police “errors” in handling the case against his client have raised serious questions.