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November 30, 2011
Burzynski going ka-boom
Category: Bad science
First, a nice bit of news: Marc Stephens, the lunatic who stirred up the recent blogospheric buzz with his clumsy thuggery, no longer has a "professional relationship" with the Burzynski clinic, that warehouse of quackery. One thing about charlatans is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:25 PM • 8 Comments •
Gals and show mares
Category: Creationism
This video has been going around — it's a group of women talking about the importance of evolution to the biological sciences. I confess to cringing in a few places — there's too much ready equation of evolution with natural...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:55 PM • 5 Comments •
November 29, 2011
I, for one, welcome our future squishily pneumatic robot overlords
Category: Science
These canny engineers have at last realized that the proper model for robots is biological, and have built a soft-bodied walking robot. The future belongs to inflatable technology! Have no fear. They're mostly benign. (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:28 AM • 5 Comments •
November 28, 2011
Mary's Monday Metazoan: A good worm is hard to find
Category: Organisms
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:46 PM • 2 Comments •
Lonely broken-hearted creationists
Category: Creationism
Aww, poor Intelligent Design creationism is feeling unloved. Or perhaps it's jealousy. David Klinghoffer, that clueless ideologue at the Discovery Institute, is whimpering that blogging scientists aren't paying enough attention to his brand of creationism. Darwinian scientists who blog...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:36 PM • 11 Comments •
Burzynski Clinic: the domain of scoundrels and quacks
Category: Bad science
Billie Bainbridge is four years old, and she has an inoperable brain tumor, and her prognosis is not good. Her family is desperate, and has been frantically trying to raise money from the community to cover the costs of a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:04 AM • 8 Comments •
The Quran is bunk, too
Category: Bad science
I know you kids like the youtube and hate that tl;dr text stuff, so if you couldn't find the patience to read my post on Islamic embryology, you can now watch the screen instead. The Rationalizer goes through the 'science'...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:32 AM • 4 Comments •
Acupuncture is bunk
Category: Bad science
Here's a terrific webcomic exposing the silliness of acupuncture. People are always citing these awful studies at me that they claim support the efficacy of acupuncture, and like the comic says what I see when I read them is that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:21 AM • 93 Comments •
November 26, 2011
Anti-Caturday post
Category: Organisms
Cats are so undignified, yowling and screeching and spraying urine all over the place. They should take a lesson from the noble sea cucumber, rising erect, proud and firm from the sea floor, and quietly, affirmatively ejaculating long voluminous streams...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:11 AM • 8 Comments •
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