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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.
Hippocrates
Category: Environment
I don't get it. First there was Climategate, in which hackers illegally broke into a server at the University of East Anglia and stole a pile of emails from climate researchers. The denialists seemed to be fine with that, and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:26 AM • 15 Comments •
February 20, 2012
Category: Organisms
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:27 PM • 1 Comments •
February 18, 2012
Category: Cephalopods
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:34 AM • 2 Comments •
February 17, 2012
Category: Bad science
It's really easy to set up a completely fake peer-reviewed journal, which is a great boon to pseudoscientists, quacks, creationists, and con artists. They can be tripped up, though, since they aren't aware of all the inside jokes and strange...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:01 AM • 5 Comments •
February 14, 2012
Category: Conferences
It's on! Students here at UMM got together and have organized their very own Midwest Science of Origins Conference, to be held in Morris on 30 March-1 April. As the big name speaker, they've got Neil Shubin to tell us...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:54 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
It truly does, and someone has caught us out and published a stunning exposé that reveals the horrible, awful behavior that our goddess, Nature, endorses. You must read "God Hates Checkered Whiptail Lizards!!!" and weep. This is but one page...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:01 AM • 9 Comments •
February 13, 2012
Category: Organisms
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:20 PM • 3 Comments •
February 12, 2012
Category: Ethics
Have you ever walked around an 19th century (or earlier) graveyard? It gives you a depressing snapshot of the old reality: so many young women dead in childbirth, so many children reaped by diseases. We've been fortunate, we residents of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:28 AM • 62 Comments •
February 10, 2012
Category: Cephalopods
You will not escape the swarm. (via NatGeo) (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:47 PM • 3 Comments •
February 6, 2012
Category: Skepticism
There's a reason I promote atheism and skepticism coupled with feminism, and it's not because I'm trying to foist a feminist ideology on skepticism. It's because skepticism drives me to consider discrimination and injustice as wrong, not just in an...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:46 PM • 32 Comments •
