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Category: Enlightenment Warrior

  • Representative Monique M. Davis Spews Torrent of Hatred at Atheists

    I covered America’s sanctioned prejudice against non-believers awhile back, but noted that there were some notable improvements in tolerance toward people of no faith in more recent years. Then Representative Monique M. Davis (D-Ill.) let loose a horrible attack on Rob Sherman, an atheist testifying against the state government’s plan to give $1 million to…

  • Subsidizing the Oil Industry Destroys Innovation

    Exxon CEO, Lee Raymond In 2004 and 2005 the Congress passed $7.6 billion in tax breaks for the Oil Industry, which had no effect on lowering oil prices or finding new sources of oil. Congress has recently rescinded $14 billion in tax breaks. This is causing a great deal of disconcertion with those who inaccurately…

  • Quoted in ABC Science

    I’m quoted in Fran Malloy’s ABC Science article Internet connectivity about social networking and it’s effects on culture: “A genuine science community is emerging online,” says science blogger Ryan Somma author of ‘ideonexus’. He argues that social networking also increases scientists’ accessibility to the public and accelerates the dissemination of new research. This is a…

  • More Global Cooling Evidence Embarrasses the IPCC Orthodoxy

    A recent article that appeared in The Australian, Climate facts to warm to, has the transcript of an important interview with Dr. Jennifer Marohasy a biologist, free market advocate, and Global Warming skeptic. When asked “Is the Earth still warming?” Dr. Marohasy replied: No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your…

  • Between a Rock and a Hardplace: Debating Cranks

    Chris Mooney has an important article online about how scientists debating fringe groups like Creationists and AGW deniers in many ways actually hurts our causes. Sure enough, one of the Expelled trailers features the following quotation from Oxford evolutionary biologist and atheism apostle Richard Dawkins: “If people think God is interesting, the onus is on…

  • Politicians Need to Improve Their Presentation Skills

    Here’s a question that started nagging me today: Why hasn’t it become standard for politicians to spice up their speeches with Power Point Presentations? Could you imagine a modern-day scientist getting up in front of a conference and try to make a persuasive argument with just an inspiring speech? “Every American must embrace String Theory…

  • “Theoretically” is a Meaningless Word to Scientists

    It’s time we stopped using the word “theoretically,” the word is an oxymoron unto itself, at least in the way we use it: “Is it theoretically possible for science to someday create a real lightsaber? (source)” “Antimatter galaxies theoretically possible, but unlikely (source)” “Critics say the White House’s theoretical arguments may fly in the face…

  • [citation needed] for the Mind

    “What is truth?” – Pontius Pilate Wikipedian Protester Courtesy of xkcd.com Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. You can’t see the Great Wall of China from space. There is no ghost of a little boy in the background of Three Men and a Baby. Goldfish do not have memory-spans only 10-second’s long. Nobody’s…

  • Copyright Infringement on Ideonexus

    I think I’ve gotten really good at this since I started running with ideonexus full speed, keeping the daily posts stocked with photos I get from NASA, wikimedia commons, and other legitimate sources, like flickr creative commons photos. However, I think it’s important to acknowledge that I did violate a photographer’s copyright in my 20071126…

  • Response to a PLoS One Article

    My father, former head of the Microbiology Department at ODU, responded to an e-mail my hippie brother sent out about the recent Prozac debunking: I seriously doubt that the PLOS Journal of Medicine, which I’ve never heard of in all my 35 years in the field, has any merit. If it even does exist, then…

  • Extinction Infringes on my Civil Rights

    You heard me. When some selfish numbnuts corporation or collusion of businesses and politics or just plain-old short-sighted human beings drive some species to extinction, that infringes on my rights. Namely, my right to eat that species. I’ve eaten bear, deer, oysters, ostrich, frogs, turtles, rabbit, pheasant, squid, alligator, octopus, fish, snails, clams, snakes, a…

  • Spitzer’s Hypocrisy

    “The lady doth protest too much.” – Queen Gertrude, Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222–230 Eliot Spitzer was an outspoken prosecutor of prostitution, and now we know this hypocrite dirtbag is guilty of indulging in what he believes should be a crime. As I have argued before that prostitution should be legal. Sex is legal,…