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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Politics Science

A lovely fisking of Ann Coulter

Via Evolving Thoughts, this article about Ann Coulter’s misrepresentation of the Dover case is just too good for me not to link to also. Best excerpt: One part of her latest book that’s getting little notice is the part that deals with Dover and what is purported to be the “debate” over evolution. She begins […]

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Science

Ask a ScienceBlogger: Time

Time – He’s waiting in the wings He speaks of senseless things His script is you and me, boys Time – He flexes like a whore Falls wanking to the floor His trick is you and me, boy Time – In Quaaludes and red wine Demanding Billy Dolls And other friends of mine Take your […]

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Science

Open peer review: an idea whose time has come?

Over at the Nature blogs, they’re soliciting comments and opinions about open peer review: The goal of any change in the peer review system must be to improve the quality of review, where quality is determined by two distinct functions: filtering manuscripts for publication in a given journal; and making constructive suggestions on how the […]

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Evolution Humor Politics Science

Is it possible to be to the right of Ann Coulter?

I don’t know if it’s possible to be to the right of Ann Coulter, but Spacemonkey over at IMAO gives it a try. I’m not sure that he succeeds. After all, he says, “We let God’s will or survival of the fittest, if you swing that way, be the appeals process.” I don’t think that […]

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Humor Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Rogue scientist has own scientific method

Via The Onion (where else): TALLAHASSEE, FL–Only months after abandoning a tenured position at Lehigh University, maverick chemist Theodore Hapner managed to disprove two of the three laws of thermodynamics and show that gold is a noxious gas, turning the world of science–defined for centuries by exhaustive research, painstaking observation, and hard-won theories–completely on its […]