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A sad report

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:27:01 +0000

Earlier this summer, I mentioned the Oregon Octocam , which featured an octopus named Deriq. Deriq has died .

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Ladies, you need to listen to what Christian guys tell you to wear

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:46:37 +0000

They’re Christian, so you can trust them to have your best interests at heart.

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More savage than natural men!

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:39:38 +0000

One of the more contemptible anti-gay activists is Reverend Scott Lively, a true liar for Jesus who considers it his sacred mission to rid the world of homosexuals. He was proud to have inspired the Ugandan death penalty for homosexuality law (although in the face of the outrage that generated, he backed off, claiming they should give them the choice of prison or gay conversion “therapy” ). His other claim to fame is that he is a holocaust revisionist

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9 months, 23 days

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:56:52 +0000

Mark your calendars! The end of the world is nigh, and we’ve got a specific date: the Rapture will occur on 21 May, 2011, and the world ends on 21 October 2011 . How do we know this? As near as I can tell, it’s pure numerology, diddling dates to create a pretense of pattern that are then used to draw conclusions

I shall be looking forward to my massive pay raise

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:53:54 +0000

Zeno catches something amusing: a right-wing radio host ranting about professors .

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A science section on Huffpo? Sweet Jebus, no!

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:43:32 +0000

JL Vernon is lobbying to have Huffpo dedicate a section of their undeservedly popular, cheesy website to science .

Episode LXXXIV: Calling all the little zerglings back

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:50:07 +0000

Well, traffic was down a bit yesterday, although the dedicated thread is going strong. I suspect that some of the readers here were distracted by some silly little game that was released yesterday, and the only way to get them back is to dangle the eye candy in front of them. Now we’re all caught up on everything.

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Late night in Seattle

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:21:43 +0000

I am pleased to report that the godless heathens of Seattle, including the likes of Ophelia Benson (who, I learned, was once bitten by a gorilla, and thereby acquired the superpowers of strength, ferocity, and calm) and Dana Hunter , know how to close out a bar. Once again, a horde of cheerful chatty atheists had to be shooed out at closing time. Too many to list showed up, but several of the previously less voluble have agreed to comment more

The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 12

Alonzo Fyfe — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:24:00 +0000

A member of the studio audience has asked that I comment on the Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life , a product of the World Atheist Conference: God and Politics. I said near the start of this series that I would present my own declaration when I was through

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Do you remember how to crash a poll?

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:17:32 +0000

It’s been a while.

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Mmmm…boiled beef and cabbage…

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:54:48 +0000

In a great victory for history, a very rare 19th century MP3 has been recovered which documents a moment in Charles Darwin’s domestic life. It seems that there was a bit of unreported conflict between them… Read the comments on this post…

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A cult that kills in Oregon

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:43:22 +0000

Alayna Wyland is 7 months old, and she is suffering . The area started swelling, and the fast-growing mass of blood vessels, known as a hemangioma, eventually caused her eye to swell shut and pushed the eyeball down and outward and started eroding the eye socket bone around the eye. There are pictures at the link.

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Things that are backwards

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:27:24 +0000

Wait, wait, this story makes no sense . A gay netball coach fired from a Christchurch Christian school has gained compensation and an apology

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The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 11

Alonzo Fyfe — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:04:00 +0000

A member of the studio audience has asked that I comment on the Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life , a product of the World Atheist Conference: God and Politics. Today: Proposition 11: We support the right to secular education, and assert the need for education in critical thinking and the distinction between faith and reason as a guide to knowledge, and in the diversity of religious beliefs [9].

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Because even the moderate, liberal Christians think God is more important than a dog

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:00:14 +0000

There are now a few more details on the story of the dog given a communion wafer : the dog’s name is Trapper, the majority of the congregation was happy to see him get a cracker, it’s just one person who complained, and now dogs have been officially excommunicated from the church . And this is exactly why I despise the so-called “moderate” Christians

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“Tom Johnson” fini

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:51:46 +0000

As some of you know, there was a long-running contretemps at Chris Mooney’s Intersocktion blog — Mooney took a comment by someone named “Tom Johnson” as evidence that the New Atheists were inciting all kinds of destructive fury and ran with it, promoting it as a solid strike against the same targets he took on in his sad little book, Unscientific America . Then it turned out that much of the conversation on this topic at the Intersocktion was driven by this same fellow, who was posting under multiple pseudonyms

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My week in the Pacific Northwest

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:39:58 +0000

Today it’s family day with a mob of Myerses hanging about and bickering opinonatedly at a picnic. You aren’t invited unless you can show evidence of a recent family relationship; showing evidence that all primates are related is nice, but won’t get you in the door.

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Sunday Sacrilege: Unorthodoxy

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:02:10 +0000

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Target teaches irreverence!

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:11:00 +0000

This is disgraceful. A reader sent me a link to a Target catalog, and apparently they’re now selling a Li’l PZ Action Set

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Episode LXXXIII: Rainbow. How the #$&* do they work?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:01:37 +0000

The participants in the exhausting thread are hereby ordered to explain this impossible phenomenon: rainbows. I don’t wanna hear any of your crazy Newton talk and refraction and water droplets, neither. (via The Skeptic’s Field Guide ) (Current totals: 10,691 entries with 1,066,521 comments.) Read the comments on this post..

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It’s more than genes, it’s networks and systems

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:40:20 +0000

Most of you don’t understand evolution.

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Seattle!

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:57:49 +0000

Well, Auburn, actually. I’m visiting family this week and mainly holing up in my mother’s house to type

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God hates dogs?

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:00:40 +0000

This story is nice and sad at the same time. At an Anglican church in Canada, a parishioner attended with his dog, went up to take communion and his pet followed him, and after giving the man the magic cookie, the priest placed a communion wafer on the dog’s tongue, too

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The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 09

Alonzo Fyfe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:58:00 +0000

A member of the studio audience has asked that I comment on the Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life , a product of the World Atheist Conference: God and Politics. Today: Proposition 9: We reject all discrimination in employment (other than for religious leaders) and the provision of social services on the grounds of race, religion or belief, gender, class, caste or sexual orientation

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Comic-con reacts to Fred Phelps

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:32:32 +0000

Westboro Baptist Church decided that they were going to picket Comic-Con, and Justin Kirchart sent me pictures. He also sent me a photo of the WBC picket — it’s a sad and pathetic 4 people standing and holding the usual “YOU HATE GOD” and “GOD HATES FAGS” signs, and it wasn’t very interesting, so I didn’t bother to upload it

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Scientology’s new enemy: Twitter

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:37:30 +0000

John Dixon is a councillor in Wales who, a year ago, and one day he wrote this on twitter: I didn’t know the Scientologists had a church on Tottenham Court Road. Just hurried past in case the stupid rubs off.

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See the stars at Dragon*Con

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:01:12 +0000

If you’re going to Dragon*Con this year, you might want to look into this other event: a Star Party at the Emory University observatory. You’ll get to hang out with cool people and learn stuff about the sky, and proceeds will also benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Read the comments on this post..

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Eyes without a mind

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:53:50 +0000

Everyone should read the Washington Post’s recent effort in investigative reporting, Top Secret America . It’s distressing

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Pick your comic book gods

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:34:31 +0000

Is anyone going to Comic-Con ? You’ve probably heard that the Phelps gang will be picketing it (IMPORTANT: you know Phelps is a litigious con-man who baits people so he can sue them, right?), so you may have to pick a god to annoy them.

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The warped, weird world of Christianity

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:26:48 +0000

The most disturbing thing about this video is that, even though it’s made by The Thinking Atheist , I can imagine it being shown in a church to the approval of the congregation. Read the comments on this post…

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Monckton’s knickers twisted

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:41:57 +0000

Last month, I posted about that devastating critique of Monckton and global warming denial from John Abraham . Abraham teaches at St Thomas University, here in lovely Minnesota.

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Not just evil, Disney evil

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:49:42 +0000

Never, ever emulate the stories from Disney cartoons. (via Evolving Thoughts ) Read the comments on this post…

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Field Guide to Biologists

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:55:58 +0000

Now, at last, with this handy reference and a pair of binoculars, you too will be able to identify biologists. Notice the unusual markings. These varieties of biologists are clearly wearing no pants, one of the characteristics of the bench biologist , a delicate breed that favors air conditioned environments and wilts if not well-watered with money

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The Copenhagan Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 05

Alonzo Fyfe — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:40:00 +0000

A member of the studio audience has asked that I comment on the Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life , a product of the World Atheist Conference: God and Politics. Today: Proposition 5: We assert that private conduct, which respects the rights of others should not be the subject of legal sanction or government concern

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Episode LXXXI: There are treasures inside!

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:40:03 +0000

I have reset the wildly mutating thread to leap upon the latest internet craze! I’m on a horse. (Current totals: 10,638 entries with 1,059,133 comments.) Read the comments on this post…

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Do you know why we don’t have a Friday Rodent?

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:00:31 +0000

There are two very good reasons.

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Skepchicks never learn

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:23:51 +0000

The Masala Skeptic reviews the latest Twilight movie . How dare they offend twee & morbid teenagers? This review will make them mope some more

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Comic-con gets a new attraction

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:40:41 +0000

This is going to be hilarious: Comic-con is next week in San Diego, and the professional attention whores at Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church are going to picket it . The destruction of this nation is imminent — so start calling on Batman and Superman now, see if they can pull you from the mess that you have created with all your silly idolatry. I don’t know why they’ve chosen Comic-con; maybe it’s because the attendees are mostly able to tell the difference between fantasy and reality, a grave sin to Phelps.

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The Vatican must have some framing experts on staff

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:23:56 +0000

They’ve done it again . They’ve declared that the ordination of women is as heinous a crime as raping children , simultaneously minimizing the trauma of child-rape and maximizing the insult to women. I don’t know how they do it.

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An unpaleontological lament for lost molecules and shattered cells and the cruelty of time

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:56:40 +0000

Sometimes, I really hate fossils. I hate them with the passion of a spurned lover, one who is consumed with desire but knows that he will never, ever be satisfied. They drive me mad.

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I ♥ this letter

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:13:10 +0000

I wish Samuel Clemens were still alive, so I could piss him off and he’d write something like this back to me. It would be such an honor. Nov

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No, it doesn’t

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:32:49 +0000

Rachel Roberts says, “

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Argentina does the right thing

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:17:19 +0000

Demonstrating once again that we northerners are dour old puritans, Argentina has legalized gay marriage . If this means Argentinians are damned, that’s just more good news: there will be Carnival in hell

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Darn, I knew I was missing something

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:07:16 +0000

Schools often block access to parts of the internet, which is fine, if only to focus students’ attention a little bit. It is not fine when they discriminate, like Indianapolis public schools, which block on religious views other than the Abrahamic religions . Their rules, though, mention something I did not know.

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Excellent analysis of the Creation “Museum”

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:40:11 +0000

People are still going to the ghastly Creation “Museum” in Kentucky — it’s actually doing a bang-up business. Fortunately, some of the people going are critics who can see its troubling flaws

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The Vaccine Song

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:07:45 +0000

Warning: Country.

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Madness. Paranoia. Ken Ham.

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:59:24 +0000

At the AAI meeting in Copenhagen, the group formulated a Declaration on Religion in Public Life .

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AVN gets spanked

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:23:06 +0000

The Australian Vaccination Network is an awful little organization that exists to spread fear and disinformation about vaccines, under the pretense of caring about children. They’re getting an official comeuppance, though: the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission has put together a report condemning AVN . They’re announcing that AVN’s claims are inaccurate and misleading, and further, that AVN harasses people.

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Convergence report

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:09:49 +0000

Jeremy Messersmith gives the post con wrap-up of Convergence, the recent sf convention in Minneapolis . These things are wonderfully fun, you should go sometime! There is a picture of me in the article, but I think he just threw it in to reassure the readers that not all the attendees were freaky weird geeks.

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A little survey

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:24:29 +0000

We have such a reputation for destroying polls that this survey may not survive contact with us , but give it a shot anyway.

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Ladies, DON’T TAKE A SHOWER!

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:21:07 +0000

He may have poured that flask down the drain! Also, the fun part is doing the succussations between dilutions. Read the comments on this post…

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Rich narrative detail

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:01:54 +0000

Every story should occasionally take a break from the clumsy metazoan action to plunge into the biochemistry of gut bacteria . Every novel could be improved this way! Read the comments on this post…

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Homöopathie rebuked

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:36:07 +0000

The last time I was in Germany, I was surprised at the pharmacies — they all had big displays of homeopathic ‘remedies’ in the shop windows. I suppose it made some sense, since the profit margins on water have to be tremendous

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Jesus was baked

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:35:24 +0000

The third of July was Bake Jesus Day, and many examples were sent in . All I can say is — most of that stuff looks nasty . Tortured bleeding guy on a stick is not the best key ingredient for a cook off, and not even Iron Chef could pull it off

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The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in the Public Life – Part 03

Alonzo Fyfe — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:21:00 +0000

A member of the studio audience has asked that I comment on the Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life , a product of the World Atheist Conference: God and Politics.

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Honesty about sex is going to disqualify a lot of professors of Catholic dogma

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:41:10 +0000

Kenneth Howell was an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois. He is not being rehired at the end of his contract, apparently because he has been accused of hate speech against gays by a student. He had written an email to his students defending the Catholic position on homosexuality, and a friend of one of the students wrote to the university and the media accusing the professor of “hate speech”, of “indoctrinating students”, and “limiting the marketplace of ideas” .

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Stop making me laugh! I’ve got work to do!

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:26:23 +0000

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More on that really bad experiment by Blizzard

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:42:10 +0000

Blizzard, makers of the games Starcraft and World of Warcraft, is about to change their forum policies and require the display of real names, basically creating a massive privacy leak if you buy a silly game and go online to get some tech support. There’s an excellent summary of why this was a really bad idea here , and apparently Blizzard has an inkling of possible problems — they’re waffling about whether to publish employee names under their new terms .

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What’s next after Expelled?

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:36:20 +0000

I’ve got a little inside information on Premise Media, makers of Expelled — despite all the bragging about what a successful movie they had, they still haven’t fully paid contractors they’d hired, and the company appears to be dead. It was a kind of zombie company anyway, with a fake website filled with fake projects to trick people into taking it seriously, and now it’s simply decaying

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I am really tired of Paul the Psychic Octopus

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:40:47 +0000

I know you all mean well, but 30-40 emails a day just about the German octopus ‘predicting’ World Cup matches is wearing me out. I have to explain a few things. Cephalopods are not psychic.

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Must have copy…for the pictures

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:25:32 +0000

You know how New Scientist published that horrible magazine cover that said “DARWIN WAS WRONG” in big letters, which we now get to hear about all the time at school board meetings as every authority-happy creationist waves it around and announces that they were right all along? I want a copy of the July issue of the Portuguese edition of Playboy for the same reason

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My terrible, awful, no-good brain

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:16:03 +0000

Here we go again, another creationist who doesn’t understand the evolution side of the argument at all. He’s criticizing the argument from bad design in a kind of backwards way.

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How to fish for atheists

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:44:00 +0000

It’s easy. Bait your hook with stupid. It’s true, we’re a sucker for that stuff, although it does have a downside

That’s a whole lot of paint

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:00:42 +0000

BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo . Read the comments on this post..

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Show me the money!

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:41:59 +0000

If only blogging were like pro basketball … Read the comments on this post…

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Salon v. Huffington Post

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:11:51 +0000

Alex Pareene jumps on the anti-HuffPo bandwagon : Giving a space to quacks to sell vitamin supplements to morons is insulting enough, but actually allowing a shameless asshole like Klinghoffer to use the Holocaust to promote his right-wing crusade to teach children lies is beyond the pale. Platform or no, there’s no reason for anyone rational or even anyone with a sense of shame to continue giving Huffington free content.

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Holy crap, we were all played!

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:06:58 +0000

There once was a gigantic blow-up of accusations that fed into Chris Mooney’s self-righteous crusade against atheists as harming the cause of science education. Remember “Tom Johnson”, the mysterious scientist who told stories of outrageous bias against Christians in academia, driven by people like me and Richard Dawkins?

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HuffPo adds cowardice to their résumé

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:40:17 +0000

We’ve known for a long time that the Huffington Post is a stronghold of anti-scientific, anti-medicine woo. They’ve also recently added Discovery Institute propagandists to their roster

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Morbid squid sex story

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:56:50 +0000

You’re reading this over breakfast, right? Just want to be sure I’ve caught you at an appropriate moment.

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The interesting experiment is already getting interesting

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:50:03 +0000

Speaking of the untrustworthiness of corporate drones, the decision by Blizzard to end online anonymity is already having consequences. Protests have gotten so hot that they are banning complainers and shutting down threads , and people are unsubscribing from the game in protest (impossible to tell if there are enough numbers there to make a dent in their obscene profits, though). There have already been instances of people revealing their own names, only to have a horde of prickly adolescent gamers descend in force on their facebook pages and email, and doing the unimaginative trick of sending pizzas to their home address

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Symphony of Science goes to the moon

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:38:03 +0000

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An interesting experiment in online social forums

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:46:19 +0000

Blizzard, which makes a couple of extremely popular computer games like Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo, also maintains a gigantic set of forums with an overwhelming volume of posts appearing non-stop. I’ve never dug into them — way too much stuff, and it’s scary how ferocious the debates can get over a change in a magic spell in a game — but they’ve announced a major, radical change : The first and most significant change is that in the near future, anyone posting or replying to a post on official Blizzard forums will be doing so using their Real ID — that is, their real-life first and last name — with the option to also display the name of their primary in-game character alongside it.

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Hooray for the Catholic Church! It’s a priest who wasn’t raping children!

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:42:41 +0000

Father Kevin Gray had better things to do with his time . Apparently for the past seven years Gray has been spending church money to fund trips to New York and pay for sessions with male escorts, and he also racked up $200,000 in restaurant bills including a large tab at Tavern on the Green. It is a step up for the church, from child molesters to hedonistic embezzlers

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Creationist weaseling over the age of the earth

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:13:49 +0000

Last week, the hilarity was that Rand Paul refused to say how old he thought the earth was . The new chew toys are creationist apologists for ignorance trying to justify it , while also refusing to state how old they think the earth is.

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W Poll

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:30:31 +0000

This poll seems a little too understated: Do you miss George W Bush?

Huffpo. Creationist. Nazis. Mix together and flush.

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:24:08 +0000

I cannot stand the Huffington Post, that bastion of Newage folly.

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Vancouver? Yeah, I’m going to Vancouver

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:57:45 +0000

Look for me in Canada, eh, on 30 July , at which time my book will be done and I’ll look much less harried and may even be nice and polite and a little less bitey snarly mean, so that I can blend in better with the natives. That’s my plan, anyway, and I’m sticking to it

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We proud tyrants of the real

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:40:13 +0000

The last time I got a glimpse of the wretched new book from Marilynne Robinson , the review was sufficient to dissuade me from bothering to ever read it. Now we have a positive review from Karen Armstrong , and I am now convinced that if ever I am confronted with this work, the only appropriate response would be to unzip my fly and piss on it, on the spot. Only my deeply ingrained social conditioning would hinder me.

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Sunday Sacrilege: The active hand

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:29:40 +0000

The more skilled the slave, the more likely they are to break free. Where faith enlists knowledge to glorify itself, it opens itself to destruction from within

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Let us count the ways the Catholic church is like the mob

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:48:11 +0000

After their recent raid to expose information about child-raping priests, the Belgian police are facing another problem . Officials say that police are also looking into threats to the lives of some witnesses and magistrates connected to the case. Jean Marc Meillure, a spokesman for the public prosecutors office, confirmed that an investigation was under way

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Attempted intimidation by a quack

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:18:40 +0000

I don’t envy Stephen Barrett at all, but this is going to be good. Barrett is the doctor behind QuackWatch a wonderful resource for exposing bogus medical claims.

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The Joys of Homeopathy

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:45:14 +0000

The video below will hurt your brain, but don’t worry, the pain will make you stronger. This is a mashup of a few homeopaths rationalizing their baloney, mixed in with Star Trek technobabble. One worry is that it might have the side effect of making you hate Trek, which isn’t that bad — Star Trek in all of its versions has been saturated with a woo version of science, anyway

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The Copenhagan Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 01

Alonzo Fyfe — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:53:00 +0000

A member of the studio audience has asked that I comment on the Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life , a product of the World Atheist Conference: God and Politics. I’m a bit interested to see your take on this Copenhagen Declaration thing that came out of a Denmark atheistic meeting recently

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Jerk of the Day

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:03:01 +0000

Why, oh why do I despise Christianity so much? Look to George Berkin to understand why. And if you can’t understand, you’re probably one of those Christians.

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Biblical verification of an atheist message

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:25:59 +0000

Austin has put up one of those mild, positive, and effective billboards that so rile up the faithful . It’s impressive that it’s happening in Texas, but I noticed something portentious in its placement: it’s on I-35 , a road familiar to me as the major north-south artery in this region (Minnesota and Texas have a direct connection, you see)

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Friday Cephalopod: A last vestige of the recent zombie invasion

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:02:11 +0000

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Episode LXXV: My people

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:43:59 +0000

I have allowed the amazing thread to go on a little too long, but my excuse is that I’m distracted. When I’m not trying to get some work done in my hotel room, I’m out among the milling hordes at Convergence . I warn you, the video below may horrify some…but these motley nerds, geeks, weirdos, freaks, and strangely imaginative and gentle partiers are my people.

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Zombie sightings

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:54:20 +0000

Christina Pikas is a zombie doing reference searches . Sharon Astyk is a zombie wondering about zombie infrastructure . Greg Laden has always been a zombie, but now he’s a zombie with bugs on his brain

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Our zombie theme song

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:20:48 +0000

Isn’t it beautiful?

Henry Gee is probably chortling happily right now

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:45:46 +0000

He’s tweaked the noses of those ‘New Atheists’, for sure! One of Gee’s roles is as the editor of the Futures science fiction section in Nature , and he’s proud to have published a story by Shelly Li , which actually is a well-written short dystopian fantasy, titled The End of God .

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Botanical Wednesday: So you’ll remember what ‘flaxen-haired’ means

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:11:44 +0000

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There will be no prayers

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:57:16 +0000

Unless they’re imprecatory, and from the other side. Christopher Hitchens has made an announcement . I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus

Attention, perversely assertive women! You are abnormal!

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:02:27 +0000

Ladies, are you independent, stubborn, or mildly aggressive in your social interactions?

The Curse of Morris

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:11:18 +0000

At first, it was a distressing slithery whisper, like a krait loosed in the room; then a sensation, an itch, as if an assassin were trickling arsenic into my ear; and then apparently the assassin decided to get sadistic and switch to sulfuric acid.

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Annoying libertarians

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:22:59 +0000

Ah, the funny cartoon yesterday rankled the libertarian contingent again. I’ll explain a few things that will get them fired up even more.

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Julia Gillard inspires a lot of polls

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:41:32 +0000

The godless Australian PM, Julia Gillard, has sure riled up the pollsters.

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Julia Gillard inspires a lot of polls

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:41:32 +0000

The godless Australian PM, Julia Gillard, has sure riled up the pollsters. Here’s three polls at once to slam. Start clicking! Do you care at all about Julia Gillard’s lack of religious faith

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