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Evolution History Holocaust Holocaust denial Intelligent design/creationism Politics Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Teaching the Holocaust: The “right” not to be offended interferes

One of the consistent themes of this blog has been combating Holocaust denial and, as a subtext, another consistent theme has been that passing laws to criminalize Holocaust denial (or, as has been attempted recently, criminalize “genocide denial“) or throwing Holocaust deniers like David Irving into jail is about as ill-advised an approach to fighting […]

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Evolution History Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

In blog posts and podcasts, Dr. Michael Egnor swings and misses

I was going to try to be a good boy. Really, I was. I had been planning on answering a question about the early detection of tumors. It was an opportune time to do so, given the recent news of cancer recurrence in Elizabeth Edwards and Tony Snow, coupled with a couple of papers I […]

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Evolution Humor Intelligent design/creationism Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Peanut butter disproves evolution!

Really, this guy is making that very argument with a straight face! My brain hurts after seeing such unbelievable stupidity presented as a viable argument by Chuck Missler, the minister who founded the Koinonia House. This makes Dr. Egnor‘s blather seem intelligent by comparison. It’s even more idiotic than the now-infamous video that claimed that […]

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Blogging Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Personal Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Nighttime, March 15, 2007, Washington, DC

In case you wondered, yes, ScienceBlogs is just a big cabal, and, as evidence, I present the following photo from a week and a half ago, when I managed to meet, drink, and conspire to take over the science blogosphere at the Toledo Lounge in Washington, D.C. with Tara Smith of Aetiology, Evil Monkey of […]

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Denialism blogging

I’ve been remiss about this (mainly because I’ve been aware of it for a few days now), but it turns out that Mark and Chris Hoofnagle have started a rather promising-looking blog, Denialism.com. It’s a blog dedicated to discussing six main areas: HIV/AIDS Denialism Global Warming denialism Creationism/Intelligent Design Denialism Holocaust Denial Anti-Vaccination denialists Animal […]