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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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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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Bioethics Biology Evolution Medicine Science

Bad scientific arguments in the service of “animal rights” activism

One of the greatest threats to the preclinical research necessary for science-based medicine today is animal rights activism. The magnitude of the problem came to the forefront again last month with the news that animal rights terrorists tried to enter the home of a researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) whose research […]

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Biology Medicine Politics Science Surgery

Animal rights terrorists may have struck again…

…and this time it’s a home invasion. Abel Pharmboy at Terra Sig pointed me to this incident, which has all the markings of still more animal rights terrorism. This time, the attack occurred at the University of California Santa Cruz and involved a home invasion by masked intruders: SANTA CRUZ – A UC Santa Cruz […]

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Biology Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Time to get out the paper bag again

Nooooo! I thought I might be safe. It’s been a really long time since I’ve had to hang my head in shame and contemplate covering it with a paper bag because of creationist pontifications of a fellow physician bringing shame upon our shared profession. It had even been longer since I had dealt with Dr. […]