Category: Pointless polls
It's pointless for these loons to try and make their case with a goofy online poll, since we'll just smack it down. Here's another one. Do you believe homeopathy is an effective form of treatment? 51%Yes 49%No The evidence is...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:02 PM • 121 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
Richard Dawkins has posted a clarification and apology. The key points are that he stands by Josh Timonen (and really, the vituperation against him that I saw was just absurdly excessive), the old forums will definitely be retained as a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:40 PM • 302 Comments •
Category: Religion
Sacrilege can get people killed. It can cause riots and economic mayhem. People die over a sense of offended propriety. And whose fault is that?...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:03 AM • 140 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
When we last left the never-ending thread, the subject was cooking. Eat this! One thing that annoys me in these shows is the completely uncritical acceptance of a culture's primitive beliefs in sympathetic magic. It's meat, people. It's got no...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:51 AM • 694 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
There was a natural disaster somewhere, so I opened my mailbox to find lots of links to Pat Robertson saying stupid things about the Chilean earthquake, like this one and this one and this one and this one. Sorry, gang,...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:01 AM • 40 Comments •
Category: Organisms
It's the sport that ought to replace pro wrestling, and boxing....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:03 PM • 35 Comments •
Category: Environment
The denialists are at it again in the comments, parroting the latest lie. UEA CRU's Dr Phil Jones agrees there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995. Wow. You'd think they'd realize that twisting the words of...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:33 PM • 212 Comments •
Category: Gadgets
I've been going insane this morning, thinking I might have mysteriously lost my ability to type, or even recognize valid HTML…and I've been seeing really weird stuff everywhere I type on the web. It looks like the problem is Webkit,...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 88 Comments •
Category: Religion
It's tough to tread that line between contempt and admiration: Jerry Coyne writes about the Templeton journalism awards. It really is a smart move on the part of the Templetonites to coopt journalists to sell their bankrupt line by tossing...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:06 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Environment
The country was hit hard with some loss of life, but so far seems to be handling it well — this is nothing like the Haiti disaster. Countries on the Pacific shore need to brace themselves for tsunamis. NOAA has...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:33 AM • 53 Comments •