Language Log : Flacks and hacks and Hitchens
Les hommes et les femmes rient-ils de la même chose ? Une étude scientifique dit que oui, toute la presse américaine résume l’étude… en disant que non.

It’s striking that [Christopher] Hitchens, who would never take a politician’s press release at face value, is so completely uninterested in the facts of the science that he chooses to cite. This reinforces my conclusion that in today’s public discourse, science is treated not as a search for the truth, but as source of edifying fables.