Brain-Dead Mixing of Science and PoliticsIn "Trawling the Brain," Science News reports the latest instance of peer-reviewed scientific gimmicry:
The 18-inch-long Atlantic salmon lay perfectly still for its brain scan. Emotional pictures —a triumphant young girl just out of a somersault, a d... |
Apr 23, 10 |
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Bernie Madoff, Charles Ponzi, and ClimategateMost everybody who reads the mainstream media knows about Bernie Madoff. Although the lawyers haven't finished picking over the corpse of his investment business and won't for some years, Mr. Madoff seems to have cheated investors out of $50 or $60 bill... |
Dec 7, 09 |
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Embarrassed Global-Warming LiberalsThroughout the six thousand years of recorded human government, there have been countless millions of lies told by public figures large and small. Some never get discovered and the lie passes down through history as recorded truth; others get discovered... |
Dec 1, 09 |
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Stunning Innovations from the TSANever underestimate bureaucratic creativity in finding new and different ways to waste our money. We wrote some time back how the TSA is sponsoring science fiction conventions ostensibly "to get new ideas." They've been doing this for years, even thoug... |
Nov 4, 09 |
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When it Comes to Mating, it's Courtship or CaninesA major challenge to received wisdom on human evolution made the news recently. The Wall Street Journal reported on October 2 that a fossil named "Ardi," which has been dated more than a million years earlier than the much-discussed "Lucy" skeleton, sug... |
Oct 7, 09 |
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Science Says: Blacks and Whites are Born RacistsWe hear a great deal of bloviating about the evils of racism, particularly from liberals who think that any and all criticism of Mr. Obama is due solely to racism. Nobody could possibly criticize him for his policies, they being so self-evidently all-wi... |
Sep 23, 09 |
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Hearts of Darkness 6 - A God of Order or of Chaos Most people today, when asked about the relationship between science and religion, would likely answer that they are inherently opposed. We've all heard how the Catholic Church forced Galileo to recant his belief that the earth revolved around the sun,... |
Jan 9, 09 |
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The Big One That Got AwayThe New York Times electronic edition of 20 October 2008 had an article about the economy which opened:
The hardest thing about analyzing the Bush administration is this: Some things are true even if George Bush believes them.
This sounds like a ty... |
Oct 31, 08 |
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Innovate or StarveIt's not often that we find ourselves in agreement with the New York Times, but they recently said something unusually sensible. Their electronic version published "Georgia on my Mind," the blurb for which said, "Barack Obama and John McCain need to foc... |
Oct 2, 08 |
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