Brendan Nyhan

Twitter roundup

Here are the latest items from my Twitter feed (follow it!):
Headline: “Obama concedes he hasn’t brought country together.” In other news, the sun came up today.
-Are the advantages of prediction markets being oversold?
-Michael Kinsley on the Reid quote as meta-gaffe: “It is entirely the creation of the process of publicizing it.”
-Ezra Klein notes how pundits and opinion editors lack even a basic understanding of most policy issues. Sad but true.
-TPM’s Justin Elliott traces the spread of the apparent myth that Flight 253 bomber had a one-way ticket.
-Sarah Palin reportedly believed Iraq was responsible for 9/11.
-Birther conspiracy theories are so outlandish that Glenn Beck thinks they’re nuts. Meanwhile, Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) has jumped on the bandwagon.
Super-cool economics field experiments.