A few interesting numbers here, bug the last item (below) is certainly true in the local area (food deserts).
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-tuesday-dec-8-2015/?ex_cid=538twitter
"Food deserts — areas without supermarkets where fresh, healthy food is scarce — were a major target of first lady Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiatives. Still, in the past four years, only 1.4 million of the 18 million people living in a food desert got a new supermarket."
Interesting terms: zombie and cockroach (as related to ideas).
"Zombie ideas are claims that should have been killed by evidence, but just keep shambling along, like the notion that vast numbers of Canadians, frustrated by socialized medicine, come to America in search of treatment. (It was in a paper about that and other myths that I first encountered the zombie terminology.) Cockroaches are claims that disappear for a while when proved ludicrously wrong, but just keep on coming back."
http://www.vox.com/2015/12/4/9849524/gun-race-statistics
"Part of the problem with the gun debate in America is that gun owners and people who aren’t comfortable with gun ownership are, to a certain extent, just different kinds of people."
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/detecting-bs/
"Vacuous statements may also act as a type of Rorschach test – people reflect their own belief onto the statements. This follows an intuitive style of thinking. It is a similar phenomenon to thinking that astrological readings accurately describe oneself, or finding accuracy is a psychic’s cold reading. Rather than critically dissecting what the statement is actually saying (or not saying) they fill the empty vessel with their own “wisdom.”"
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