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* "SomethingAwful is a {{cult}} that supports [[YouCanPanicNow drug use, rape, racism, illegal use of firearms, harassment,]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking piracy]] and [[PaedoHunt child pornography.]] [[MoralGuardians We exist to expose the cult that is Something Awful and the mastermind behind it Richard Kyanka.]][[http://badfanfics.forumotion.co.uk/crappy-miscellanea-f27/baby-faith-hope-t943-30.htm#36549]] [[hottip:*:Well I wouldn't call it a 'cult']]

* "SomethingAwful is a {{cult}} that supports [[YouCanPanicNow drug use, rape, racism, illegal use of firearms, harassment,]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking piracy]] and [[PaedoHunt child pornography.]] [[MoralGuardians We exist to expose the cult that is Something Awful and the mastermind behind it Richard Kyanka.]][[http://badfanfics.forumotion.co.uk/crappy-miscellanea-f27/baby-faith-hope-t943-30.htm#36549]]

* Possibly one of the biggest and most history making examples of this trope is when Alfred Nobel's brother died, but not Nobel. Some journalist thought it was Alfred, who at that time was mainly famous for inventing dynamite. and wrote a SCATHING obituary. Seeing the horror of how he would be remembered after his real death, Alfred founded the Nobel Prize.

** "The oldest relative of X has been discovered" (not only wrong because of what stated above, but the oldest relatives of any living being ever are the same origianal bacteria from which ''all'' life comes from. My oldest relative, is the same as my dog's and the baker's yeast's I just used on my pizza dough)

** "...the ancestor of X..." It's practically impossible to say that any fossil found is a direct and factual ancestor of any other organism, living or extinct. Evolution is complexly branched, and you are millions-to-one more likely to found an ancient relative (like would be a distant uncle or cousin which left no descendance, but still bears some similiarities) than a direct ancestor (like a father or grandfather, that bears roughtly the same similarities but ''did'' left descendence).

** "...the ancestor of X..." It's practically impossible to say that any fossil found is a direct and factual ancestor of any other organism, living or extinct. Evolution is complexly branched, and you are millions-to-one more likely to found an ancient relative (like would be a distant uncle or cousin which left no descendance that still bears some similiarities) than a direct ancestor (like a father or grandfather, that bears roughtly the same similarities but did left descendence).

* SomewhereAPaleontolgistIsCrying each and every time that mainstream media publishes anything remotely related to paleontology or biological evolution. There are paleo-geek blogs almost entirely built around this. By far the most frequent examples include such claims as:
** "The oldest relative of X has been discovered" (the oldest relatives of any living being ever are the same origianal bacteria from which ''all'' life comes from. My oldest relative, is the same as my dog's and the baker's yeast's I just used on my pizza dough)

** Saying stuff like: "Humans and Neanderthals" when Neanderthals were a species (if nto subspecies)of Humans (the genus Homo).

** "The oldest relative of X has been discovered" (the oldest relatives of any living being ever are the same origianl bacteria from which all life comes from)
** "Found the missing link between X and Y found!" (the concept of a "missing link" is completely unscientific and missleading, transitional fossils are the closest thing, with a quite different meaning).
** Another sad common mistake is adding random ceros. Is not like people is going to count them all. Dinosaurs got extinct 65.000.000.000 years ago? ugh, sure, it's not like thats several times the age of the universe.

* SomewhereAPaleontolgistIsCrying each and every time that mainstream media publishes anything remotely related to paleontology or biological evolution. There are paleo-geeks blogs built around this. By far the most frequent examples include such claims as "It has been discovered the oldest relative of x" (the oldest relatives of any living being ever are the same origianl bacteria from which all life comes from) and "The missing link between X and Y was found!" (the concept of a "missing link" is completely unscientific and missleading, transitional fossils are the closest thing, with a quite different meaning).
Another sad common mistake is adding random ceros. Is not like people is going to count them all. Dinosaurs got extinct 65.000.000.000 years ago? ugh, sure, it's not like thats several times the age of the universe.

ANother sad common mistake is adding random ceros. Is not like people is going to count them all. Dinosaurs got extinct 65.000.000.000 years ago? ugh, sure, it's not like thats several times the age of the universe.

*** Have you ever seen the media ever portray the fandom as anything but "perverted losers in mascot costumes"? It's sad, especially since at Anthrocon '09, barely more than 1/6th of the attendants wore fursuits.

*** Have you ever seen the media ever portray the fandom as anything but "people in mascot costumes"? It's sad, especially since at Anthrocon '09, barely more than 1/6th of the attendants wore fursuits.

*** And to make things worse, they're talking about a mascot suit... shaped like a ''shark''... [[WallBanger thump... thump... thump...]]

* [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10598926 BBC news]] and [[WallBanger even]] [[http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/study-unveils-plant-nervous-system-illuminating-how-plants-remember-and-react Popular Science]] reported that a recent study proves plants can think. [[http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=plants-cannot-think-and-remember-bu-2010-07-16 The study in question does NOT prove that]].

* According to FoxNews, [[http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happens-anyones-guess/?test=latestnews Ipv6 isn't backwards compatible]].

* [[http://www.focus.de/sport/mehrsport/motorsport-us-cart-serie-indy-500-franchitti-sieg-von-unfall-ueberschattet_aid_513849.html European media outlets]] continue to refer to IndyCar under the name of a former rival sanctioning body, even more than 3 years after its [[SeasonalRot decline]] and demise.

* The U.S.-published ''Investor's Business Daily'' [[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/hawking_british_and_alive/ bashed Obama's healthcare plan]] by comparing it to the UK's National Health Service, where apparently "the stories of people dying on a waiting list or being denied altogether read like a horror script" and where Stephen Hawking would most certainly be dead if he were British. Um... Stephen Hawking ''is'' British. And alive, thanks. The magazine was informed of its error and got a retort from Hawking himself.

* Tommy Lee of Motley Crue recently wrote a letter blasting SeaWorld about using AI, specifically mentioning Tillikum and a youtube video. The problem is, the video in question is of ULISES who is a different male at a facility across the country. Oops.

* Media does, indeed, [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying make palaeontologists (and most scientists) cry]]. If you know Spanish, half the blog ''[[http://paleofreak.blogalia.com/ El Paleofreak]]'' is devoted to debunk wrong media headlines about dinosaurs, Palaeontology, Evolution and Biology in general.
* Anyone who tells you that scientists were fooled by Piltdown Man is either deceived or lying. Even worse, some will even tell you that "scientists made an entire skeleton from a pig's tooth!" First, the reason it took so long for Piltdown Man to be uncovered as a fraud were mainly because archaeology and paleontology were very primitive in the 1910's. Even then, many of the foremost archaeologists were extremely skeptical, because it didn't fit into the known patterns of human migration (most notably, they didn't match up with the Cheddar Man fossil found a few years earlier). With so little to go on, they didn't have definitive proof that it was a hoax until 1953. On the pig's tooth claim, next to no scientists were hoaxed, and the drawing of "Nebraska Man" was done by an independent artist for a non-scientific magazine. Of course, those spreading these falsehoods more than likely knew better; TheyJustDidntCare.
** And even if they were fooled, ''so what?'' There is no such thing as an immutable truth; anything, even a law that's stood unchallenged for centuries, can change in the face of new knowledge. That scientists, who are still human beings, can be taken by a clever hoax should not be at all shocking; that they would discredit said hoax once it's been exposed is just another day at the office.

* When legendary baseball manager Sparky Anderson passed away, Yahoo's headline read "The Hall of Famer was the only manager to win World Series titles in both leagues." Except he wasn't. Sparky was the ''first'', but Tony [=LaRussa=] did it also, managing the 1989 Oakland Athletics (American League) and the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals (National League) to championships.