Brendan Nyhan

Twitter roundup

From my Twitter feed:
-Breakdowns of last night’s House vote on health care reform by the New York Times, Stanford’s Simon Jackman, and 538’s Nate Silver
-John Thune is yet another GOP supply-sider with presidential aspirations: “I’m always for cutting … marginal rates because you get more revenue”
The unscientific state of forensic evidence in the criminal justice system
-NYT’s Douthat cites flawed Rasmussen poll on 9/11 conspiracy theories — see this post for a better poll
-Politifact on the “Obama bans fishing” myth
-How have I lived this long without a David Souter bobblehead?
-Is Michael Moore correct that health care reform imposes a $100/day fine for denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions?
-In a GOP primary debate, mentioning NPR is not a good strategic move
-French TV replicates Milgram experiment with reality TV host/audience as motivating authority rather than science
-Dick Armey — ill-informed former majority leader