Who Can Really Say?

Another two-fer.

So tonight I'm watching NBC Nightly News and near the end of the broadcast there's a piece about how gas prices aren't that high right now if you consider inflation. Well plant hair on my head! No shit!

But for weeks they've been telling us about near "historically" high and rising gas prices, and blah blah blah blah blah. Over a month ago, Gregg Easterbrook exploded this particular piece of tripe and it was obvious to -- well at least me but I'm not smarter than all 6 or 7 of the rest of you, am I? Not by that much anyway.

Then, from Megan McArdle comes this:

Yesterday I turned on the news and caught a short item about tourism in Antarctica. The piece concluded with a quote attributed to a "leading scientist" bemoaning the increased tourism and saying (approximately) "we have two choices; we can bury our heads in the sand and do nothing, or we can take every possible measure to protect it".

But oops! The guy who's quoted isn't a scientist, he's a tour director. And oh -- he's not in favor of stopping the tours.

D'oh!