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A survey has revealed that Daily Mail readers will believe in anything that confirms what they already believe in. Underneath the Daily Mail article 'Women only hear properly when they are gossiping, study reveals' a Daily Mail reader confirms what has long been assumed by even casual observers; Mail readers only believe in studies that reinforce their own ignorance:
Now this is one study I DO believe. When my mother-in-law pops in for a chat I can't get a word in edgeways, she talks over me non-stop, UNLESS, I know something she doesn't about someone else. Then she's all ears and quiet. After that she can't wait to get out the door to tell someone else an embroidered and embelished version of what I just told her. It's hilarious.
- shazz, scotland, 08/5/2009 13:55
Amusingly enough Shazz has been fooled by the lying 'Daily Mail Reporter' who once again leads with a lying headline: there was no 'study', it was a survey - as the article goes onto reveal. Hardly cutting edge 'research' as the Daily Mail reporter would have you believe.
Still, a survey is still perfectly valid evidence when it backs up a long-held Daily Mail assumption - in this case that women are useless gossips:
Mine doesn't listen to what's said TO her / around her? Nothing.
Suppose she would have scored at the bottom end of the listening grade for this study.
- Maurits, London., 8/5/2009 15:01
Yep!!
- Jacko, Swindon, 8/5/2009 14:13
Whilst a survey of 2000 people is able to firmly reinforce long-held Mail beliefs, proper studies about real issues are often met with absolute disdain. Take global warming for example. I can guarantee that any article on global warming or climate change on the Daily Mail website will be surrounded by commentators stating how the study is wrong or that all scientists are doing is trying to make money by getting grants to study it more etc.
I've looked at Mail commentators and climate change in the past but rather than simply dig those up I thought I'd test my theory and just pick a random article on the Mail website on climate change and take some comments from there. So I did a quick search for 'climate change' and picked this one as it had plenty of comments: Last 10 years have been warmest on record because of man-made climate change. Let the commenting begin:
People are now wising up to the 'global warming' or next ice age or whatever brigade who are paid thousands to come up with this rubbish. We cannot get the weather forecast right for the next day never mine future generations.
- lyn, tyneside, 19/12/2008 12:38
rubbish. We`ve just come out of a`mini ice age` or `cold snap` with world temperatures are returning to previous levels which i`m afraid is irrefutable historically proven fact.
- al, northwich england, 18/12/2008 23:27
While I disagree with human's previous behavior towards the Earth I do not believe in global warming. It is a natural pattern of temperature change and by the time it is large enough for the average person to detect, we will have entered our next ice age.
Humans have simply not been around enough to comprehend the temperature patterns of the Earth. However, this does not mean that we should continue polluting our planet.
- Niamh, Everett, WA, USA, 18/12/2008 19:45
I lived in the tropics for many years and every day you would hear/read a weather report of how warm and sunny it would be, or in the monsoon seasons, there would be rainfall on a regular basis. It was uncanny how often they would be right.
These senior meteorologist scientific guys are clever but personally I feel their time would be better spent curing the common cold or inventing a robot to find the TV remote.
Man made global warming: Even Stephen King would have been thought weird if he had written a book around such a daft hypothesis.
- Steve, Bedford, 18/12/2008 19:05
The usual cries of disbielf from the uneducated sceptics.
- Chris D, S.Yorkshire, 16/12/2008 13:39
I am hardly uneducated, Chris. I just refuse to believe such tosh peddled by government funded scientists. Look at historic changes of temperature and make up your own mind, not what the Mail tells you to believe.
- Nikki, Stratford-upon-Avon, 18/12/2008 15:03
Humans are the cause of global warming? We are not that powerful let me tell you.
It's because our Sun is growing, increase in solar flares and the return of our long lost "Brown Dwarf" entering our solar system.
And mainstream media makes us think that a car is destroying the Earth? That is ludicrous and they are doing this just to TAX you more...
- "Paint it green, and TAX it like mad".
- Bob, Belfast, 17/12/2008 20:31
A Carbon club foot.
What a Lie and a hoax..
Tax Tax Tax.
- Rick, Newcastle UK, 17/12/2008 14:54
And on and on the comments go. So many stupid fucking idiots read the Daily Mail that I struggle to retain some semblance of civility towards them. I really think that this sums up the average Mail reader - or consumer of any media - they just seek out a media source that reinforces their own ignorance. If occasionally the Daily Mail prints an article on global warming then they can happily plug in their earphones and start singing 'La la la la la' until the story passes by - or actually start commenting that the whole story is some kind of lie and that they know better than the scientific community.
I would like to think that humanity has the basic desire for truth that will eventually lead to the demise of the modern media and people become sick of being treated like idiots. The only problem is that there are a lot of fucking idiots out there.
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More hot air about nothing! Its nothing more than a government ploy to tax us all. More power to the Government! Wait for them to mess it all up! And more bureaucrats from the EU.
- Umah, Atlanta, USA, 17/12/2008 23:15