The worst of the four classifications of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics, alternative facts. Alternative facts are distinguished from the other damnable lies by the addition of gaslighting the listener.
> After backing up her false statements with alternative facts, Kellyanne Conway threatened the "dishonest" media for suggesting that she might be lying.

Lesson 5: The facts 确切数字 Listen to the tape then answer the question below. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics? Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to ex

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(640) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第三册

Prototype Solar Cars Train Future Alternative Energy Experts JOHANNESBURG In South Africa, students at the University of Johannesburg have taken on the challenge of building their own solar cars and racing them in competitions. While it offers plenty

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By John Shields Washington, DC 28 February 2006 watch Food vs Fuel report With the world's oil supply increasingly at risk of terrorist attacks and other disruptions, there is an international rush to

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The search for alternative fuels to gasoline has led to surprising possibilities, for instance, the waste oil for making French fries. But one of the most unusual alterna

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When the wind picks up at the foot of the Rockies, there are those who believe they can hear the future. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, making alternative power sources competitive with fossil fuels has been a mission since the energy

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This week well discuss choices about how best to use the words option and alternative. Frequently the words option and alternative are used interchangeably, but there is a difference. Do you know what it is? Lets say Horatio has a primary plan of act

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By Katherine Cole Tres Chicas is a rarity on the music charts: A vocal group in which all three singers are frontwomen in their own right. And don't get ready to rumba, because despite their Latin nam

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By Brian Padden Washington 25 December 2007 With virtually no oil or natural gas resources of its own, Germany relies on Russia for 20 percent of its oil and one-third of its gas imports. But with Russia displaying a willingness to use oil as a polit

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By Jim Fry Washington, D.C. 26 February 2007 watch Energy report President Bush is looking for new ways to encourage the use of alternative energy, and Democratic Party leaders who control Congress appear to be only too ready to comply. That leaves

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 01 March 2006 Windmills in California Windmills are sprouting across the United States, as Americans search for non-polluting alternative energy sources. The West Coast

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President Barack Obama says the United States should depend more on so-called clean forms of energy, like wind and solar, and less on oil. The president promoted his alternative energy plan on an Earth Day visit to the central state of Iowa. Preside

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT -June 24, 2002: 'Facts for Life' By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations Children’s Agency, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization h

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GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about manipulation, about truth and lies and what happens when sometimes it's hard for people to see the difference. ALI VELSHI: I think manipulation is trying

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump's revised travel ban is set to take effect just after midnight. Before it does, immigrants - immigrant rights activists are asking courts across the country to block the order again. The measure signed by the pres

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: As 2017 draws to an end and we try to assess it, one measure is, what deathless prose has been added to our collective memories over the past 12 months? Well, Fred Shapiro has assembled the top 10 quotations of the year from inte

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China's energy production relies heavily on coal-fired power stations. As the world's highest emitter of greenhouse gasses, China consumed more than 400 million tones of coal last year. As many parts of China have been shrouded in a gray haze over th

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By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: July 17, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Education Report. Some young people in the United States attend 1)alternative schools. These are schools that

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By Gary Thomas Washington 09 February 2007 The controversy over the Bush Administration's pre-war intelligence on Iraq was further fuelled Friday by an internal Pentagon critique of the work of a little-known Defense Department office. As VOA corresp

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今天我们要学的词是 alternative. Alternative 作为形容词,意思是另外的,可以用于替代的。Stephen Hawking predicts that planet Earth will only survive another 100 years, and it's urgent to consider an alternative planet. 霍金

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Here are some facts about the earthquake which struck the Canterbury region on Saturday. It measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. At first we were told it was 7.4. That would mean nearly three times stronger. Each 0.2 means double the strength. On avera

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