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From New Scientist, Doctors implicated in abuse of Iraqi prisoners.


ETA: Australian Democrats Press release: Government Overboard: The Democrats called it from the start. Includes a sort of history of the children overboard affair in the form of extracts from previous press releases.

And another: Labor Joins Government To Guillotine Marriage Bill. How govt and opposition combined forces to ram through the gay marriage ban, regardless of a Senate inquiry already in progress.

They're playing games with peoples' lives and they don't even care.

They had an arrrgument

Couple of handy resources for online debate:

Logic & Fallacies from Atheism Web. You don't have to be a soulless infidel free thinker to take advantage of this clear explanation of (a) how to spot garbage in other peoples' arguments and (b) much more importantly, how to spot garbage in your *own* arguments and even in your thinking.

Thirty-eight dishonest tricks which are commonly used in argument, with the methods of overcoming them. This is poorly formatted, but full of juicy information. Again, it's even more useful to watch out for this stuff in your own head. It's very easy to fall into a fallacy without actually intending dishonesty - we're not born knowing logic, we had to invent the stuff.