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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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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. The Modesty Survey is a bizarre instrument created by asking young Christian women to put together heartfelt questions about their clothing (”Are bikinis immodest?” “Are jeans immodest?”), and then teenaged Christian boys are surveyed to get their opinions.

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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

Botanical Wednesday: Shouldn’t they sparkle? Or mope?

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:47:59 +0000

Dracula simia Read the comments on this post…

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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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She made the right choice

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:51:50 +0000

Some things just make you want to cringe under a table somewhere, they’re so awful and embarrassing. And sometimes they’re so bad I don’t want to cringe down there alone, so I’m going to creep you all out, too. Behold, Andrew Cohen .

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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

Do you remember how to crash a poll?

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

It’s been a while. I hope you haven’t forgotten.

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Hey, UK! How do you reconcile these two facts?

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:01:59 +0000

This is a rather horrifying article about young girls reading Harry Potter one moment, and then dragged off to get their clitorises chopped off . It’s got these nasty little details like, if you pay extra, you can get the butcher to use a clean knife

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We were all losing our religion

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:58:36 +0000

One of the giant panels I was on at Convergence is now a podcast at the Secular Buddhist . It’s got me, Bug Girl, Jennifer Ouellette, Lyra Lynx, Maria Walters, Jen Mana, Ted Meissner, Debbie Goddard, Carrie Iwan, and Dave Walbridge, and I’m already worn out just listing them. It was also very well attended: SF conventions are hotbeds of godlessness

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A war against mosquitoes?

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:35:43 +0000

Well, this was a weird article in Nature that made me think, at least: A world without mosquitoes . I was surprised to learn that there are actually ecologists/entomologists who believe the world would be a better place if we could simply exterminate entire genera of winged pests — that mosquitoes fill a readily replaceable niche, that they make minimal positive contributions to ecosystems, and we’d gain immeasurably from removing animals responsible for so much human suffering. The one thing they also agree on, though, is that there is no way to do it

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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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A lesser controversy at Scienceblogs

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:34:32 +0000

The case of the various kinds of blogs hosted on ScienceBlogs has come up on Newsweek , and I get quoted trying to explain how I’m unperturbed by a couple of institutional blogs here. Not all bloggers feel this way, Myers included. “We’ve known about those [institutional blogs] for some time–they aren’t a problem,” he wrote in an e-mail to NEWSWEEK.

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WikiLeaks does humanity a service

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:41:22 +0000

It’s amazing: WikiLeaks has just dumped over 91,000 classified documents from the Afghanistan war on the web . Just like that, we get an actual look at what’s been going on over there, unfiltered by the traditional media, and definitely not given a rosy patina by Fox News. Fox New is, of course, treating this as a serious blow to their worldview — which isn’t surprising, since reality does great damage to Fox.

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The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 10

Alonzo Fyfe — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:59:00 +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 10: We reject any special consideration for religion in politics and public life, and oppose charitable, tax-free status and state grants for the promotion of any religion as inimical to the interests of non-believers and those of other faiths

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Sunday Sacrilege: Unorthodoxy

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

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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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Shakin’ the nuts

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:57:42 +0000

Stay tuned for frolicsome hijinks and high hilarity. We have stirred up some kooks. Here are 3 in ascending order of lunacy.

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Creationists win a prize

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:57:17 +0000

There is a zoo near Bristol called — you’ll see there are already problems right from the name — Noah’s Ark Zoo.

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Carl Sagan and our human conceit

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:35:52 +0000

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Ben Stein does his best Ben Stein impersonation

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:12:25 +0000

Ben Stein has opened his mouth again, this time on the economy. He thinks the 15 million Americans who are unemployed deserve it

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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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Phil Plait, TV Star

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:39:15 +0000

At last, word of Phil’s secret media project has leaked out: he’s got a Discovery Channel show about how the universe is out to get him, called Bad Universe . It’s got debunkings of astronomical myths and bad movie tropes, and most importantly, it’s got explosions.

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Friday Cephalopod: Don’t call him Dumbo!

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:26:16 +0000

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What fresh torment can we perpetrate on young girls?

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:20:49 +0000

How about breast ironing ? When I first read about it, I wondered how it would even do anything — but then you discover that they heat stones until they’re hot enough to cause pain, and press these instruments of torture to their chest daily for months. And who carries out this sadistic abuse?

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Blasphemy Day is 30 September

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:19:22 +0000

CFI wants your help: they’re looking for video public service announcements that make a point about freedom of expression . You can do it! Although they do set the bar high with this example

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No metazoan is an island

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:38:00 +0000

I’m one of those dreadful animal-centric zoologically inclined biologists.

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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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You might go blind if you watch this

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:41:27 +0000

You might want to skip this video. It’s Glenn Beck performing in Salt Lake City, when he claims to have macular dystrophy and might go blind — and it’s revoltingly mawkish, maudlin, and self-pitying

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I write like…a mark ripe for plucking

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:17:30 +0000

There’s a devious web site called “I write like…” that is making the rounds — you paste in some of your text, and it claims to analyze it and tell you what famous writer you resemble.

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Rage rising…rising…rising…

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:40:44 +0000

Now Bora has left ScienceBlogs . And all is still quiet from Seed Media Group.

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Mel Gibson is a product of his sick ideology

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:53:06 +0000

Christopher Hitchens addresses the latest media meltdown by Mel Gibson . It’s great stuff; people are making all these excuses for him, that he’s not really a racist, he’s not really violent, he’s not really a misogynist, he’s not really a loathsome wackjob…but Hitchens cuts through it all.

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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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Must I be better than Phil Plait at everything?

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:43:24 +0000

Yes.

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Episode LXXXII: Is this the thread for the tea party?

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:19:41 +0000

Jebus, I hope not. You may continue your previous perpetual parley

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The Irish amendment of the Copenhagen Declaration

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:38:17 +0000

I posted the Copenhagen Declaration here a while back. Atheist Ireland has done the right thing by taking it as a starting point and producing a simpler, and they hope clearer version. This is exactly what the motley hordes of the godless need to do: don’t expect one document to encompass everything exactly as everyone wants, because that will never happen

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Another podcast

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:23:51 +0000

I’m on Godless Business with a gang of Australians. Read the comments on this post…

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The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 7

Alonzo Fyfe — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:25:00 +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 7: We affirm the right to freedom of expression for all, subject to limitations only as prescribed in international law – laws which all governments should respect and enforce [6]. We reject all blasphemy laws and restrictions on the right to criticize religion or nonreligious life stances

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Wisdom for food

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:03:18 +0000

The Metro State Atheists are gearing up for a charity drive , one that couples feeding the poor with promoting freethought. Food for Freethought is a food drive that also encourages freethought, freedom of expression, and free inquiry.

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What is Richard Mabey smoking?

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:55:53 +0000

I really don’t know who this Mabey fellow is — apparently, he’s a well-regarded nature writer in the UK — but he’s recently enthusiastically mentioned his summer reading plans , and they’re freaky. I’ll need a long summer break just to finish Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini’s dense but explosively exciting What Darwin Got Wrong (Profile). The celebration of the great scientist’s bicentenary last year courteously sidestepped the fact that most cutting-edge biologists now regard natural selection as little more than cosmetic tweaking in the process of evolution.

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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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The Copenhagan Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 06

Alonzo Fyfe — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:28:00 +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 6: We affirm the right of believers and non-believers alike to participate in public life and their right to equality of treatment in the democratic process.

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Brother Sam Singleton, the only honest evangelist

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:21:24 +0000

I just mentioned that Brother Sam Singleton was going to be at Skepticon 3 , and now I learn that his tour manager and enabler Cari has had a serious accident just as they were about to go on tour. If you weren’t aware of Brother Sam before, here’s a sample: Apparently, atheist evangelist is not a high-paying position, because they have no health insurance

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Stop the Stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:05:31 +0000

If you do nothing else. Please take a moment and sign the Petition.

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I knew this was coming

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:21:43 +0000

Remember that horrible, stupid, no-good article about chickens and eggs , the one that used the identification of a protein important in egg shell formation to claim chickens had to have come before eggs, with no comparative data, no appreciation of the logic of evolutionary theory, and absolutely no respect for the evidence?

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Flashy graphic illustration of the creationism problem

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:44:34 +0000

There have been some recent surveys of attitudes towards evolution and the state of science education in the US, and I’ve mainly used tables in presentations — so it’s nice to see some eye-catching graphical representations of the data .

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Physicists, brace yourselves for a revolution! Faster than light travel discovered!

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:31:35 +0000

Those slippery rascals at Answers in Genesis have been doing research , they say, and Jason Lisle claims to have discovered something radical . I have been working for some time on solving the “distant starlight problem.” This is the issue of how starlight from the most distant galaxies is able to reach earth within the biblical timescale. Although light is incredibly fast, the most distant galaxies are incredibly far away.

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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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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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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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The Vatican has been beaming cancer rays into children!

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:53:07 +0000

That’s the latest news, anyway: radio masts operated by the Vatican have been implicated in an increased incidence of cancers nearby . It is such a juicily evil story — it would just fit the Pope’s Bond villain image so well — but, and I really, really hate to defend the Vatican, I don’t buy it

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Episode LXXX: Party time!

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:24:17 +0000

It’s always party time in the exuberant thread , but now it’s party time with magic tricks! (Current totals: 10,618 entries with 1,056,455 comments.) Read the comments on this post…

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About that ad predicting the fall of Darwinism in 2013…

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:33:24 +0000

I know, I know already. We’re getting creationist and religious ads appearing on the right sidebar

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Realism is the answer

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:03:52 +0000

Barbara Ehrenreich critiques positive thinking — and blames some of our problems on it. There’s a lot of truth here, and it’s also entertaining to watch.

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Godless Croats!

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:45:30 +0000

They exist, which is very good news in a country that is 85% Catholic…and the reality of a Croatian atheist community was acknowledged in a major newspaper ( google translation , for those of us who don’t know the language). The Enlightenment is busting out all over, it’s good to see.

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Godless Croats!

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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No peeking!

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:14:27 +0000

Why has the government made it illegal to photograph the disaster on the gulf ? Oh. that’s why

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The Vaccine Song

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

Warning: Country.

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God needs more blood

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:29:42 +0000

Molly Norris, the cartoonist who launched “Draw Mohammed Day” (and who later withdrew herself from the event , citing her fear of persecution) has just been put on a hit list, calling for Muslims to murder her . The man calling for her death is this Yemeni cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, a pleasant looking fellow who also cheerfully encouraged the Fort Hood massacre .

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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This is supposed to be a children’s video about oxygen?

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:41:42 +0000

But the part where he gets in a sloppy threesome with the hydrogen twins is too racy! Read the comments on this post…

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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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Episode LXXIX: American Splendor

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:46:25 +0000

Harvey Pekar would have fit right into the undendingly discursive thread , and now it’ll never happen . Just think what he would have said about PepsiCo. (Current totals: 10,597 entries with 1,053,074 comments.) Read the comments on this post…

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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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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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An honest peek into the brain of a Christian conservative

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:05:47 +0000

In North Carolina, Christians defaced an atheist billboard . These things happen; there are always a few jerks in any movement who’ll go out and vandalize private property because they’re so sure they’re in the right that the laws don’t apply to them.

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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British royalty receives a long-awaited shakeup

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:46:03 +0000

I was so excited about this lead . A famous Newfoundland sea monster will soon occupy a space normally reserved for Canada’s Queen

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Jon Stewart, you let me down

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:27:52 +0000

Last night, Stewart interviewed Marilynne Robinson . I do not expect attack dog tactics from Stewart, ever, but I also didn’t expect him to so totally buy into her premises.

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

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

This turned up in a comment this morning.

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HuffPo: Worse than Fox News?

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:00:05 +0000

At least when it comes to quackery, it is.

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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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Adam Bly has a blog

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:07:13 +0000

Bly is the fellow who put Scienceblogs together, and to his credit, one of his responses to the heat generated by the whole PepsiCo debacle is to step forward and be more open. His blog is at Science is Culture — go say hello.

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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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Here’s everything you need to know to be a good atheist

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:48:23 +0000

Just listen to Carl.

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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PepsiCo has been expelled

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:29:19 +0000

We just got this note from Adam Bly: We have removed Food Frontiers from SB.

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PepsiCo has been expelled

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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The Copenhagan Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 02

Alonzo Fyfe — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:10:00 +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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Botanical Wednesday: Something pretty

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:03:12 +0000

Never mind the chaos going on behind the scenes! We need a pretty distraction, stat ! Read the comments on this post…

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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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Say hello to…PepsiCo??!? WTF?

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:40:02 +0000

It’s nice when we add another blog to the stable here at Scienceblogs — it means another human face added to the collection, another set of opinions to enjoy or destroy, yet more scientific minds committed to engaging in discussion with the culture. After all, that’s what we’re all about, putting a human personality to this weird enterprise of science. And as everyone on this blog is particularly aware, we encourage all kinds of diversions and digressions and transgressions, freely stomping on sacred cows and stuffed shirts because we can.

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

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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Huffpo. Creationist. Nazis. Mix together and flush.

The Bible Belt can never improve if everyone refuses to question religion

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:10:58 +0000

This is appalling. This video of a supposedly secular high school biology classroom will show you what we’re up against. These students are simply expressing uninformed incredulity — they can’t imagine how anything could have evolved.

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Atrocity in Kerala

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:45:16 +0000

This is a horrific story out of India, and the weird thing is that everyone is condemning the bloody, violent end of the story, but treating the preliminaries as a matter of course. Here’s the outline, as near as I can extract from a scattering of stories, often in poor English. In March, TJ Joseph, a professor at a private Catholic college in Kerala, gave an exam that apparently offended Muslim students.

Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Sure, I know what love is

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:55:35 +0000

A caterpillar loves its wasp.

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Acknowledging True Belief™

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:20:35 +0000

Atheist Ireland is handing out a monthly award to the Really, Really True Believer™ , and this month it goes to the anti-boobquake gang of Iran. Some Iranian clerics have sicced the vice police on department store mannequins, where they saw off the breasts of the shameless but inert hussies.

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Coloquio Mexicano de Ateísmo

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:18:12 +0000

I’m going south of the border on 13 November. You can join us .

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Coloquio Mexicano de Ateísmo

Episode LXXVI: The post-Fourth-of-July thread

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:02:57 +0000

Just in case you crazy people were so busy scribbling in the perennially distracting thread , here are some 4th of July fireworks. Blow up in the comments, if you’d like. (Current totals: 10,538 entries with 1,043,108 comments.) Read the comments on this post..

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Uh, I don’t think those credits will transfer anywhere

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:54:18 +0000

Glenn Beck really is certifiable. He’s now pushing his own “university” , staffed by a trio of right wing incompetents, with a tuition of $9.95 per month

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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 Joys of Homeopathy