Interesting Links for 12-04-2012
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andrewducker- Have 1,000 people died after being found "fit for work"?
- Healthy competition in the NHS is a sick joke
- Competition improves hospitals, report finds
- Only scientific study to show that sexual orientation can be changed has been retracted
- The Daily Mail is _really_ good at headlines
- Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Jail for Selling Fake 'Frankenstein' Posters
- Successive political parties have failed to deal with the UK's housing crisis
- Axl Rose declines Hall of Fame honour
- Sweden’s new gender neutral pronoun causes controversy.
- Possibly the least likely slashfic in the history of all slashfic. My brain, she has exploded.
- The Fate of the Republicans Who Supported Gay Marriage
- CIA's Secret Fear: High-Tech Border Checks Will Blow Spies' Cover
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Date: 2012-04-12 11:12 am (UTC)Sweden . . .
Date: 2012-04-12 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-12 01:14 pm (UTC)I guess we'd have to know how many people were found "fit for work" to know if this was an unusually high number anyway.
Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Jail for Selling Fake 'Frankenstein' Posters
Headline looks like miscarriage of justice and a really harsh sentence. The alternative headline "Man sentenced to 6 years in Jail for $1.3 million fraud" looks like justice and a fairly reasonable sentence.
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Date: 2012-04-12 08:14 pm (UTC)... and from TFA, it seems this is 1,000 people put in the 'Work-Related Activity' category, which is not the same as 'fit for work'. Admittedly the Mail has previous in conflating these two.
Man sentenced to 6 years in Jail for $1.3 million fraud
That was exactly what I thought! It did work to make me look though, in a way this alternative headline wouldn't have. :-)
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Date: 2012-04-12 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-12 05:48 pm (UTC)