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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion.
[School Superintendent on "The Simpsons"]
October 29, 2007
Category: Entertainment
The other night, I made the mistake of going to the local theater to see the horrible new version of Halloween by Rob Zombie. It sucked. Unimaginative, tedious, unrelievedly grim, plodding, with no insight or interesting ideas, and it wasn't...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:59 PM • 69 Comments •
While I would love to devote all of my time to neurobiology, I do have other classes that require my attention. In one of those classes I am writing a research paper on tuberculosis. While researching tuberculosis I began wondering...
Posted by harderkid13 at 4:04 PM • 28 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
Objects of strange affections: Sex doll → mannequin → bicycle → pavement. No word on how many of them vote Republican....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:34 PM • 27 Comments •
Category: Creationism
How can you not believe in creationism when such famous authorities in biology and human anatomy accept it?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:44 PM • 52 Comments •
Category: Creationism
No three words are more pregnant with the promise of error in a conversation with a creationist than to hear them say "what evolution predicts…". It's practically a guarantee that you're going to hear something bizarre and fundamentally erroneous —...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:36 PM • 159 Comments •
Category: Media
I'd almost forgotten, myself. But look, Gannon shows up in the virtual flesh at Denialism to try and defend his record. Trust me on this, Jeff. You want us to forget your sleazy softball approach to fake journalism. You aren't...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:42 PM • 42 Comments •
Category: Communicating science
Dave Munger has been spearheading a useful tool: Blogging on Peer-Reviewed Research, an aggregator and set of icons to be used on blog posts that are summaries of actual, genuine, peer-reviewed research. Read the guidelines; the idea is that when...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:54 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I mentioned that Eric Hovind, son of Kent, was lecturing lying at Shakopee this weekend. A reader, Evan Olcott, made the trip and has reported back....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:30 AM • 42 Comments •
Category: Academics
This is the last time I'll pester you, I promise. The DonorsChoose challenge ends after the end of this month, and we've done well. We met my goal of raising $20,000 dollars, 200 freethinkers have stepped up to make...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Here's an interesting thought and modeling experiment: how to evolve a watch, literally. As an example, it's nice, but there are also real biological examples of organisms evolving clocks — evolution of the period gene, for instance, which also...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:00 AM • 66 Comments •
