I was interested to see how much blogospheric (including on line news sites, etc.) attention was being given to the firebombing of the home of a scientist by 'animal rights activists' vs. the death of 32 monkeys in a Charles River Research lab in Sparks, Nevada. A google search showed vastly different levels of coverage (with the former receiving much more attention) but the data are bogus because the events happened at different times (by a few days). So I thought I'd try Google Trends to see if I could compare the stories, but Google Trends does not compare small-time events like these. You have to be big ... like Jesus Christ, or PZ Myers, to show up on Google Trends. Anyway, this got me playing around with Google Trends, and I thought you might enjoy these results: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... ...
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