I read a lot of stupid stuff each day. I know a large number of people, it seems, who don’t think much about things like science, and facts, or even logic. But this is my number 1 today (The whole article is worth reading, thanks Amanda!)Why bother with an HPV vaccine? Its all good!
I’m [...]
Shockingly, it would appear that we are now dealing with reality as it is, not as we might want it. What the right-wingers don’t want you to know is that these steps actually useful in accomplishing goals they claim are so very important to them, to wit, reducing the number of abortions.Granted, there are some [...]
Expelled, and his behavior since, have made me very sad. I loved his gameshow. (H/T P.Z.M.). I could go on the usual rant about how many people have died in the name of god and how few have died due to science (I have NEVER been beaten with a test tube, or even a periodic [...]
Fruit flies made to de-evolve.
Funny how you can test evolution even though creationists and “intelligent design” people keep saying you can’t.
Evolution: +1 Creationist tripe: -3
Garrison’s World: The Irrelevance of Rational Atheism and the New Philosophy of the Non-Rational – Part 7 : Fri, 02 Jan 2009 : eNewsChannels
There are, for example, experiments in Quantum Physics, such as the famous ‘dual slit’ experiment (you can see this in a YouTube video), which show electrons as appearing to be playing a [...]
Discovery.com
has an article on how evolution seems to have occurred in bursts (at
least in some instances). But what I wanted to point out was this:
During about two hundred million years, organisms grew
from cells invisible to the naked eye to organisms about the size of a
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I think there’s this misconception about how long we mean [...]
So I’m feeling all sciencey these days and just picked up ‘The Canon’
by Natalie Angier. It has a great little example in there that really
defines science and, inadvertently, why ‘intelligent design’ isn’t a
science AND why no one really thinks it is, even those who support the
idea.
My DVD player stops working the day I get [...]
Yet another rule allowing doctors to deny treatment
Yes, this is aimed at abortion, and yes, I know there are already rules allowing this bullshit. But it angers me every time it comes up. Doctors can decide what care you do and don’t get, but god forbid they make your little girl get vaccinated [...]
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It does make me sad that, when we are confronted by something scary and so far not fully explained, we still turn to magic.
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I’m actually not writing this as an attack or even criticism of ID.
Its been bothering me for quite a while that supporters of ID can’t understand why it doesn’t belong in science classes.
The core reason is that these people don’t understand what science is. They think that science is a quest for truth, for fact. [...]