Stories that go against the meme

The Pakistani scientist who won a Nobel prize for predicting the Higgs Boson particle is being written out of the books in Pakistan because he belonged to a heretical sect of Islam.

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Remember scientists announcing they found a germ that thrived in a high arsenic environment without phosphorus? Whoops:

The new papers suggest instead that although the organism is able to survive in high arsenic and low phosphorus (phosphate) conditions, it still needs phosphorus to grow.

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Viking town Sliasthorp found and is being explored by archeologists.
Then the article posts this "duh" moment:

historians have doubted whether Sliasthorp even existed. This doubt is now starting to falter, as archaeologists from Aarhus University are making one amazing discovery after the other in the German soil.

One of these days, historians will learn that maybe they weren't making up all those myths....
headsup Archeoblog.

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The press lapped up the "nuns on the bus" story while ignoring the Bishops complaint of First Amendment violations by Obamacare.

As I pointed out elsewhere, the bus costs $125 an hour, but no one in the press bothered to check where they got their funding.....

Catholic World Report has the whole story of how, at the Laetificat blog did some simple googling to find out.
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Who cut the alternator belt on Romney's bus?

As Instapundit notes:

And where’s the Secret Service? Romney’s the presumptive nominee, and anybody who could cut the alternator belt could have cut a brake line, or planted a bomb.

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The world's richest woman?

No, not Oprah: Gina Rinehart, An Australian lady who owns and now runs her family's Iron mine.

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Rewrite the maps: not only are natural gas fields in the US and Canada rewriting the memes (and have a lot to do with the lower carbon profile of the US) but the Philippines is sitting on a major area.

Which is why China is threatening war with the entire SEAsia region..

actually, China is dumb to try to steal our natural gas, since their own "fracking" gas areas could supply their needs...

and TPMBarnett notes Africa's economies are taking off too...