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Rush Limbaugh gives Expelled! thumbs up

Why am I not surprised? The stupid, it does so burn.

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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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Words fail me again: How to be nailed to a cross without getting an infection

It’s a rare, rare situation, but the sheer craziness of this (hat tip PZ) knocked the wind out of me, so that I’m having a hard time finding something to say about it: Health officials in the Philippines have issued a warning to people taking part in Easter crucifixion rituals. They have urged them to […]

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Vox Day’s misogyny

I happen to be in Chicago right now attending the annual meeting of the Society of Surgical Oncology. It’s a meeting that I try to make it to almost every year, and usually it’s a necessary update to my knowledge base. Consequently, I only just this morning noticed my fellow ScienceBloggers Mark Hoofnagle, Mark Chu-Carroll, […]

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Now why can’t all religious instructions be like this?

I’ve always been a bit skeptical of most recommendations by religious figures, but for once I’ve come across one that I can whole-heartedly support: Florida pastor Paul Wirth wants his parishioners to make love — a whole lot of love. The pastor for Relevant Church in Ybor City is challenging the couples in his congregation […]