When I wrote a post about how Richard Dawkins was being unjustly smeared as supporting Hitler-style eugenics by the religious blogosphere, I figured I might provoke some criticism, particularly since I didn’t just stop there. No, in a bit of what some may consider blogging hubris, I couldn’t resist trying to discuss under what circumstances […]
Category: Medicine
Grand Rounds
Grand Rounds, vol. 3, no. 10 has been posted at the blog of fellow skeptic Dr. R.W. Enjoy!
Remind me to mark April 10 down on my calendar. I never realized it was such an important day, and, in any case, I wouldn’t want to miss it. Nor should the rest of the skeptical blogosphere. Why? It’s World Homeopathy Day, “celebrated” (or, if you’re a fan of evidence-based medicine, as I am, lamented) […]
With the internecine sniping that’s been going on lately throughout ScienceBlogs ove Larry Moran’s intemperate “flunk the IDiots” and “Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists” remarks, or, more specifically, whether opposing ID requires that one oppose religion in general as well, I hesitate to tread here. However, given my interest in the Holocaust, World War II […]
If I taught a class in these days of professor evaluations depending so much on student evaluations, I’m not sure I’d have the guts to respond to a student’s request to be excused so that he can go to a bowl game the way the Angry Professor responds. Of course, if the school were the […]