Democrats Target Medicare Insurers

Democratic lawmakers will propose banning private Medicare insurance plans from door-to-door sales pitches after some seniors complained they were pressured or misled into enrolling in the wrong plans.

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For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage.

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For years, psychologists who conduct research have lamented what they see as an antiscience bias among clinicians, who treat patients. But now the gloves have come off.

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Anyone doing a clinical trial of a drug is supposed to announce publicly that the trial is under way and describe its goals. But David Moher of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute said many tests are conducted without this disclosure.

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There have been unfortunate incidences where people are given misleading information in part because there's no way of vetting it.

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""The survey, commissioned by the Canadian Health Coalition"" What is truly misleading is that the Canadian Health Coalition has nothing to do with health, medicine or patients. It is purely a lobbying arm of CUPE.

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This article points out the various misleading, exaggerated, or simply untrue stories that are being used by opponents of the Obama administration and those with vested interests in stopping reform so they can keep "their" slice of the money that we spend on health care.

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EXCERPT: The Center for Science in the Public Interest has notified Bayer Healthcare that it will sue the company if it continues to claim that the selenium in its One A Day vitamins may reduce men's risk of prostate cancer, the health group announced today.

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President Obama isn't just rewriting rules regulating the environment and the financial markets -- he is also going after the food industry. Target and example No. 1: Cheerios.

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Several media figures and outlets have falsely claimed that President Obama's approval rating is lower than that of most or all recent presidents, according to Gallup.

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Summary: The Fox Nation featured a headline that falsely claimed: "One Group Gives Obama's 100 Days a C+." In fact, the article to which the headline linked discussed a poll of "new media experts" who graded the WhiteHouse.gov website, not President Obama's first 100 days in offi …

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A Jacksonville businessman and his company that sold chew toys resembling former NFL player Michael Vick and planned to sell dolls named after slain 2-year-old Caylee Anthony are sued by Florida's attorney general.

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Summary: Sean Hannity falsely claimed that President Obama ordered "drastic cuts in the military budget" and misleadingly cropped comments by Secretary Gates to criticize Obama over missile defense.

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The strangest point of this ad is that Giampaolo didn't get the portability, battery life, and power he was looking for, he just ended up with a cheap-appearing machine that obscured its real technical limitations under a flashy layer of misleading, specification-oriented marketi …

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President Bush Announces Invasion of Iraq

Six years ago President George W. Bush announced the invasion of Iraq with the following words:

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Affordable health care is a must, but we also need acceptable standards of health care or it won't be worth anything. or at least a higher level of care than what is deemed horrifying yet perfectly acceptable in Tennessee

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Excerpt: If you knew your child was a murderer, would you do anything in your power to save them from life in prison or possibly the death penalty? OK -- what if it meant misleading the media or tampering with evidence? What to most people is just a hypothetical question of moral …

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The bottom line: McCain's claim only works by using an overly broad definition of what counts as a "small business" - and even with that definition, fewer than 2% of business owners would be hit by Obama's proposed rate increase.

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CNN provides some insight into the major claims made by both candidates.

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Hungry for Attack Ads

Why are political advertisements overwhelmingly negative? What purpose is served by publicly insulting your opponent? The answer is simple and not that surprising: we the people are responsible, and we don't mind.

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group.

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A television advert for the iPhone misled consumers, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled. Two complaints to the watchdog noted that the advert said "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone".

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A Desperate Commercial for Desperate Times

So you thought to knew your candidates' positions on important issues, right? Obama is against alternative energy and McCain is against his favorite contributor, Big Oil, correct? Obama will raise taxes not just for the rich, but for everyone, no? How wrong you are.

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London Mayor Boris Johnson has said he was "misled" by his deputy, Ray Lewis, who resigned on Friday. Mr Lewis, Deputy Mayor for Young People, stood down over claims of financial irregularities stretching back almost a decade.

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It depends on the meaning of the word "instrumental," doesn't it. Hillary's claim to have vast foreign policy experience and was "instrumental" in negotiation concerning numerous foreign policy and relations matters during Bill's presidency.

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