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why you should support your skeptics
Ah the lifestyle of the web skeptic. The champagne, the caviar, the private jets, the exclusive parties at a posh nightclub every weekend, and more beautiful women than the eye can see just itching to strike up a lecture on the latest theories in ast...
when giant monsters roamed the earth…
Here’s another reason why we should be glad that primates and dinosaurs are separated by tens of millions of years. They were tough. Really tough. Should those hulking brutes somehow share the modern world with us, hunting them would be an extr...
the curious case of a skeptical bait and switch
Gerontologist and philosopher Raymond Tallis has a lengthy article browbeating neuroscience in the latest edition of New Humanist. Though he starts out by advocating caution in using neurology beyond the intended scope of the discipline and branching...
the difficult divorce between time and space
Overturning the theory of general relativity takes a lot of work as most popular science buffs know. So what’s a better way to draw in eyeballs than questioning whether Einstein’s work has finally been overturned? It’s kind of like ...
when an answer is not an answer at all…
Earlier this week I posted a few questions about the concept of intelligent design from a biological standpoint but from that of a designer. As you can guess, there was no answer from Dembski, probably because a small fry blog like this is just not i...
yet another hunt for the god gene
Science reporter Nicholas Wade just published a book which boasts that his insights into the evolution of the human predisposition to supernatural beliefs offer some sort of new or one of a kind explanation for why we have religion in society. To hel...
… and a bullhorn for every maniac
Right now, somewhere, Ray Comfort and his designated former child star stalker are handing out a mangled copy of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species at some hapless college. Lacking important chapters where a number of crucial questions abou...
nasa, you’re trying way too hard to be trendy
Trying to look edgy, hip and stylish has been a marketing and public outreach strategy for decades and when you have the right corporate culture and the right product, it works. But let’s be honest here. Rocket science or engineering are not ex...
the evolution of guinness
In the marketing world, the makers of Guinness want to tell us that 500 million years isn’t that long to wait for a pint of really good beer with a slick ad that rewinds evolution all the way back to the Devonian even though that was actually b...
false controversies and evolution in the u.s.
Despite the lamentations of Jeremy Thomas, the producer behind a recent biographical movie about Darwin, the entertainment industry in the United States didn’t find the topic too controversial to merit a distribution deal for the film. Newmarke...
how the stuff of pseudoscience legend is made
Bad science and misinformation about complex scientific topics generally spreads in one of two ways. One is by popular internet memes which are so easy to debunk, taking them on is like bringing a small tactical nuke to a knife fight. The other metho...
when nature isn’t neat and tidy
Behold a sphere of rock and ice called Pluto. Once it carried the same designation as mighty Jupiter and the other gas giants and rocky worlds orbiting the Sun, but no longer. Instead it’s now a dwarf planet, something like an overgrown asteroi...
sticking a fork in bloggingheads.tv?
What happens when you put up an hour long discussion between a Young Earth creationist and a historian of science who can’t bring himself to point out that the idea of our planet being 6,000 years old is an utter crock from both theological and...
You too can be a rocket scientist
Here’s a tip for you. Never watch commercials with someone who studied marketing because he’ll start pointing out all its flaws and problems. I say this because I’m exactly that kind of person and while I try my best to restrain myself, sometim...
The culture that forgot about science
Over the last few weeks, I’ve made a number of posts about scientific literacy in the U.S. and how blaming scientists for the lack of it is a case of blaming the victim for the sake of political expediency. And when we discuss what doesn’t contri...
