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Announcements Biology Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Too bad I don’t live anywhere near Boston…

…because Boston skeptics get to have all the fun with a meeting of Skeptics in the Pub on Monday, March 24 at The Asgard (great name for a pub!) in Cambridge at 7 PM. Keynote speaker for the night is our very own Mike the Mad Biologist. We’ve done a little blog tag-teaming in the […]

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There, that’s better

Sadly, unlike his namesake, Orac is not immune to human foibles and human vulnerabilities. In particular he’s not immune whatever virus is going around at the moment. The damned thing felled my wife for over a week. I thought that I had avoided it, but apparently not. Now I’m starting to feel the unmistakable signs […]

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Announcements

Things that make me smile, Saturday edition, part 2: A new skeptical doctor joins the SB collective

I’ve been remiss in not mentioning that one of the newer and better docs dedicated to skepticism and science= and evidence-based medicine has joined the SB collective. I’m talking about PalMD, formerly of the blog White Coat Underground. He’s joined up with the Hoofnagles over at Denialism.com and is already posting away. It’s always good […]

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Anti-Semitism Biology Entertainment/culture Evolution History Holocaust Humor Intelligent design/creationism Movies News of the Weird Pseudoscience Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

Things that make me smile, Saturday edition, part 1: Creationists shooting themselves in the foot

The other night, I wrote about how the painfully inept and just plain dumb actions of the producer of Expelled!, the neuron-apoptosing movie that’s basically an extended argumentum ad Nazium against the dreaded “Darwinism” that blames Hitler, Stalin, and, apparently, puppy hatred on Charles Darwin himself. Basically, the producers were having one of their private […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine

Antivaccinationists flood the AJC blog comments

If you ever have any doubt at the sheer level of unscientific fearmongering and lunacy antivaccinationists like to foment, all you have to do is head to the comments section regarding the David Kirby article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that I deconstructed yesterday. Given that the Age of Autism site linked to it to send […]