A while back I noted that the New London Day printed a story about some ghostbusters, without giving even a passing clause to the idea that, just possibly, there are no such things as ghosts.
PZ Myers points out over at Pharyngula that the New York Times is apparently as credulous as the Day.
The Times printed an entire story about a revival of the use of exorcism in the Catholic Church without once questioning the basic premise that a person can be possessed by a demon. Apparently, when it comes to spooks or religion, there aren’t two sides of the story. “Balance” is apparently reserved for scientific issues like global warming, where scientific consensus is balanced by the misrepresentations of the self-interested and the deluded.
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