Anti-Science
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The Psychic Skeptic
I’ve been extraordinarily busy of late with a fun yet time-consuming new job, so I heartily apologize for the lack of posting. To make up for it, please enjoy this awesome investigative article by a very clever and dedicated skepchick. The company referenced is lobbying to have the article removed, so Karen, the author, is encouraging us to spread it…
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Getting in touch with my past life (as a con artist).
I’ve been on Craigslist.org an awful lot lately. You see, I’m in the process of changing jobs, and so I’m looking around very carefully to find the absolute best possible position for me (and on that note, if any of you happen to have an open position for a creative writer in your ad agency/in-house marketing department/newspaper/science laboratory, don’t be…
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Bachelorette of Science
In the latest issue of Nature, there’s an exciting article about the attempt to stop British Universities from offering a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Alternative Medicine or Homeopathy: “Many scientists and advocates of evidence-based medicine feel that giving homeopathy scientific status is unjustified. Aside from the fact that there is no known mechanism by which this treatment could work,…
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Further discussion about The Top 10 Myths About Evolution
Here are the 10 myths that are discussed in The Top 10 Myths About Evolution by Cameron McPherson Smith and Charles Sullivan. I’ve added a couple of notes where I think the myth is unclear from the chapter title. From your experiences in talking to people about evolution, have you found these to be the common misperceptions that people hold?…
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Let’s ask Professor Science
Wondering what went on inside the creationist amusement park Dinosaur Adventure Land? For those of you who didn’t get a chance to visit Kent Hovind’s pseudoscientific fantasy world before the big nasty government shut it down for lack of building permits, check out this home movie showing some of the “rides.” Footage was shot a few days after the place…
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Let's ask Professor Science
Wondering what went on inside the creationist amusement park Dinosaur Adventure Land? For those of you who didn’t get a chance to visit Kent Hovind’s pseudoscientific fantasy world before the big nasty government shut it down for lack of building permits, check out this home movie showing some of the “rides.” Footage was shot a few days after the place…
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The Woo(mb)
Male Sea Horses carry eggs deposited by their female counterparts in a pouch, where the egg becomes fertilized, and the hatchlings are nurtured to term. That, unfortunately, is the best information we have about male pregnancy at this time. The website www.malepregnancy.com would have us believe otherwise. The well-crafted site claims to have successfully impregnated a man, Lee Mingwei. The…
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13 is the loneliest number
The recently established Brussels Airlines has come under fire from idiots for the company’s use of thirteen stars in its logo. Upon unveiling the design, the company was inundated by passionate pleas from misguided clowns who objected to the number thirteen being featured so prominently on an aircraft. For those just joining us, many cultures consider the number thirteen to…
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