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Blogging

Good math

Here’s an interesting new blog that I discovered via Trackback. Remember my post yesterday praising a certain commenter who chimed in about the Geiers. He’s started his own blog called Good Math, Bad Math, which he describes thusly: …in my experience, one of the most clear ways of identifying a crackpot is through math. No […]

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History Holocaust Holocaust denial

Congratulations to Deborah Lipstadt

I’m a bit late on this one, but Deborah Lipstadt won the National Jewish Book Award for best book about the Holocaust for her book History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving. I started reading the book a couple of months ago, but got sidetracked. Last weekend, I picked it up again […]

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Medicine

Grand Rounds vol. 2, no. 24

Geez, it snuck up on me this week. Grand Rounds vol. 2, no. 24 has been posted at Emergiblog, and I totally forgot to submit some custom Respectful Insolence. Go forth and experience the best that the Orac-less medical blogosphere has to offer. (It’s probably an improvement over the weeks when I do submit something.)

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Evolution Humor Intelligent design/creationism

True blasphemy

After all the violence and controversy over the Danish cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed, why is nobody protesting this real blasphemy?

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Humor

Evidence for global warming

I’m a bit burned out from spending far more time than they deserve debunking the Geiers’ bad science and even worse statistics; so today’s blogging will tend towards lighter fare (and shorter posts). One thing I found recently via PharmaGossip is some rather compelling evidence in support of global warming. Just check below the fold.