One of my favorite parts, though, is how he deals with the problem of sneaking the word liberal into the film. Intelligent Design "scientists" in "Expelled" are offended by being called ignorant. When Stein points out that "Catholics and … [Read more...]
Vote for Your Favorite Cartoon
Cross-posted at Left in Lowell The Union of Concerned Scientists recently had asked for submissions for Science Idol: the Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest. The challenge was to submit an editorial cartoon highlighting … [Read more...]
Off Topic: Neurogenesis and Aerobic Exercise
Lobes of Steel from The New York Times Magazine: Other recent studies support this theory. At the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, a group of elderly sedentary people were assigned to either an aerobic exercise program or a … [Read more...]
Conservapedia collides with reality
The flagellum that propels the organism is thought by ID advocates as something that is 'irreducibly complex'. Turns out there is new evolutionary news about E. coli. This time some scientists MSU have been running an experiment … [Read more...]
Scientists in Congress
Vern Ehlers (R-MI), first elected in 1993Ph.D. in nuclear physics from UC Berkeley; former chair of the Physics Department at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI.Rush Holt (D-NJ), first elected in 1998Ph.D in physics from NYU; assistant … [Read more...]
The State Church Movement
In the US, those prominently abusing this tenet are the fundamental Christianist evangelicals and the conservative factions of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches.They have inserted their particular sect practices and beliefs in our … [Read more...]
The Bird Flu Accident that Didn’t Happen in Austin, Texas
cross-posted from the excellent Seachange Bulletinthanks, sandy!The Bird Flu Accident that Didn't Happen in Austin, Texas gee, what were all those dead birds doing in Austin a few days ago? i sure as heck hope that folks down there … [Read more...]
Alex Beam and the romance of denial
Globe columnist Alex Beam clearly prides himself on being a smart, contrarian sort. I can't imagine, then, why he writes such a credulous piece on MIT's famous global-warming denier Richard Lindzen:"This is the criminalization of opposition … [Read more...]
Too dumb to breathe
Amy Ridenour of the conservative National Center for Public Policy Research slams all those crrrraaazy global-warming agitators in the media who don't know nothin' 'bout science:Anyone smart enough to take in O and emit CO2 knows you can't … [Read more...]