…check out Ed Brayton’s masterful fisking of some truly awful anti-evolution “arguments.” Note especially the way that the two bloggers who run the site, when faced with criticisms of their mangling of facts and attributing “holes” in evolutionary theory that really aren’t, simply repeat the same fallacious arguments again and again in the comments and […]
Month: October 2006
It seems like only yesterday that I was fisking yet another piece of seriously irritating woo from that expert purveyor of woo, Deepak Chopra. In fact, it was only yesterday that I was fisking part two of Chopra’s woo-filled The Trouble With Genes series. As I mentioned in my previous fisking, I had thought that […]
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Mourn, punk rock fans…
Last night, Patti Smith performed the final concert (see here as well) at punk rock Mecca CBGB. Today, they are planning on beginning to dismantle the club. The club’s demise was the result of a prolonged landlord-tenant dispute, and the landlord declined to renew the lease. Many bands that I grew up to love, like […]
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Alright, I’ll come right out and admit it up front. There was no part one to this piece. Well, there was, but it wasn’t on this blog, and I didn’t write it. PZ did in response to some really idiotic arguments from ignorance that Deepak Chopra (or, less pleasing to Dr. C, here) displayed as […]
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While I’m on the topic of tacky design in a Christian website, what about tacky religious art? Everyone knows that He comes in many guises. One in particular that interests me as a surgeon is this one: As a surgeon, I’d have to hope that Jesus is somehow completely sterile, because he’s contaminating the surgical […]
