Enough, already! Over the last couple of days, we’ve had Signs You Might Be an Intelligent Design Critic. Next, we had You May Be an Intelligent Design Supporter If… Just remember who got the ball rolling with these silly Jeff Foxworthy-inspired lists way back in January 2005 and updated it shortly after landing here at […]
Category: Science
Let me just take this opportunity to welcome one of my favorite evolution bloggers, Jason Rosenhouse, over to the ScienceBlogs fold. I’ve been following his blog for many months now. Go say hi to him at his new location at EvolutionBlog, and don’t forget to update your bookmarks (which reminds me, I’ll have to update […]
If you want to see how depressingly ignorant about science President Bush’s new Press Secretary Tony Snow is, you need go no further than this rant at Bad Astronomy about Snow’s assertions about evolution confidently made in obviously complete ignorance about science, what a theory is, what a hypothesis is, or what evolutionary theory actually […]
Continuing to some extent a theme from the other day, I wish my textbooks had read like this one. I have to say, this is the first time I’ve ever seen the term ménage à trois in a science textbook. It’s also used as a surprisingly good analogy, although I wonder how the author would […]
Yesterday was May Day, and Catallarchy has posted its annual Day of Remembrance for for the victims of Communism. Of particular interest to readers of this blog is a rather extensive article about just what can happen when political ideology is allowed to warp science, specifically what happened to science under Communism because of Trofim […]