Even sleazier than the DI
Climate change denialists have something in common with evolution denialists: they have a list of “500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares,” just like the Discovery...
View ArticleThe man Pope Ratzi reinstated in the Catholic church
Here is Bishop Richard Williamson speaking just last week. This is the kind of gentleman of high character the Pope would see in a leadership position in the Catholic church, since he did revoke his...
View ArticleAnti-vax study a case of scientific fraud?
If you want to know where the current ridiculous anti-vaccination scare came from, there’s one well known source: Andrew Wakefield. He published a paper in 1998 that claimed there was a link between...
View ArticleThe vaccine-autism argument suffers another failure
A special court has reached a decision: vaccines don’t cause autism. On one side were families with sad and tragic anecdotes of children with serious developmental disabilities, and on the other… The...
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Al Gore gets a poll
Here’s a Fox-News-driven poll for you. Should Al Gore remain on Apple’s Board of Directors? Yes 48% No 49% Unsure 4% What did Al Gore do to win this vote of no-confidence? Was he flirting with Linux,...
View ArticleMonckton’s knickers twisted
Last month, I posted about that devastating critique of Monckton and global warming denial from John Abraham. Abraham teaches at St Thomas University, here in lovely Minnesota. Monckton replied in a...
View ArticleGood hair turns out to be a poor science educator
The requirements to be a TV weather presenter are fairly slack: an undergraduate degree with some training in meteorology is preferred, but not required, and the main skills seem to be looking...
View ArticleCreationists, climate change denialists, and racists and the credentialism...
Credentialism always makes for convenient excuses. We love to construct simple shortcuts in our cognitive models: someone has a Ph.D., they must be smart (I can tell you that one is wrong). Someone is...
View ArticleDepends on what you mean by “know”
Chris Mooney is galloping around on his anti-science education hobby-horse again. That’s a harsh way to put it, but that’s what I see when he goes off on these crusades for changing everything by...
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