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  • Medicine’s Ivory Tower Meets the Information Age

    If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve. – Jello Biafra ideonexus’ DNA Via: baekdal California has joined New York in taking stand against home DNA testing, issuing 13 cease and desist letters to companies offering home genetic tests. In addition to the companies being required to meet safety and testing standards (which nobody has…

  • John Coleman, Global Warming, and the Price of a Gallon of Gas

    John Coleman, weatherman for KUSI in San Diego, has an unintentionally hilarious rant posted, Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas, where he blames Global Warming Theorists for the high cost of oil and what he seems to think is the impending destruction of civilization because of it. Mind you, it’s not…

  • 29-MAR-2008 @ 2000 Local: Earth Hour 2008

    Earth at Night Image by NASA Tonight at 8:00 pm is Earth Hour 2008, brainchild of Australia’s World Wildlife Fund. The idea is to turn off all your lights between the hours of 8 and 9 pm your local time. People all over the world are taking part, and even cities are shutting down lights…

  • Clarifying the Science Behind Global Cooling

    “It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.” – Frederick Mosteller Global Cooling Trend Close-Up of Last Decade Yesterday I posted this image of what climatologists are claiming is evidence of warming in the last decade, and explained how it actually shows a cooling trend; however, it has come…

  • 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…

  • [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…

  • 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,…

  • The Politics of Fear VS Mathematical Perspective

    In 1964 Lyndon Johnson’s campaign ran the following ad scaring Americans in to voting for him with the idea that Barry Goldwater would start a nuclear war if elected: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/OKs-bTL-pRg] Hillary Clinton’s campaign is spinning their recent primary wins as attributable to their “3a.m. Phone Call” ad, which uses a similar tactic against Obama: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/M70emIFxETs]…

  • EPA Refuses to Protect the Environment

    Despite the EPA being ordered by the Supreme Court nearly a year ago to determine whether carbon dioxide poses a danger to public health, which would require them to enforce the Clean Air Act, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson tells Congress they haven’t taken any action on the directive and don’t have any plans to…

  • Hey Everybody! It’s Another Global Cooling Report!

    I’m sure this one, unlike the last one and the one before that is for really real this time. Really. This one even made Digg, Drudge, Faux Noise, etc, etc… meaning it’s totally got legs for absolutely certain this time. Right? The article in question openly admits that they’ve had nothing but anecdotal evidence to…