A dementedly objectifying book, aimed at kids, about why “Mummy” might want to have plastic surgery was profiled in Newsweek recently, and got a lot of people hot under the collar: WhatAreWeTeachingOurChildren, ThisWillCorruptTheValuesOfOurYouth, etc etc etc. Now, the author of… Read More ›
Science
Dodgy science journalism week
That old “really the earth is cooling and we’re about to have an ice age” argument gets another outing, this time in The Australian courtesy of Phil “Australia’s first astronaut” Chapman. Greensblog comprehensively debunks his arguments, which basically rest on… Read More ›
PZ refutes four bad arguments against evolution
Read. Bookmark. Refer to this the next time you need to refute bad arguments against evolution from creationists and IDologists. Favourite bit: The Second Law of Thermodynamics argument is one of the hoariest, silliest claims in the creationist collection. It’s… Read More ›
One more for the tigtog-is-a-freak category
You are a dog Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can’t be human. The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!
APOD: Running Messier’s Marathon
When I retire I’m going to become an astronomy geek. Explanation for the photo below from APOD. Image Credit: Amir Hossein Abolfath
Typical MND misrepresentation: shame on you, Glenn Sacks OK, his explanation does make sense after all
Alert blog-readers may have noticed that many blogs, including this one, use a “cut” or “more” tag on longer posts, so that only the first few paragraphs show on the main page, and to read the full story one needs… Read More ›
Stolen Generations experiments: Australia’s Tuskegee?
[image source: Turing Foundation] News.com.au: Aboriginal children ‘injected with leprosy’ Allegations have arisen that Aboriginal children from the Stolen Generation may have been infected with leprosy or injected with experimental medication while institutionalised. The issue was raised during a Senate… Read More ›
I’ll never look at Tony Hill in quite the same way again
Damn you, Gummo! Seriously, a great post on a skeptical approach to psychological profiling in homicide cases.
Ah, that immutable primate heritage
Richie at Crimitism takes on the latest piece of simian research (rhesus monkeys this time) which is being spun as proving something about innate gender tendencies. He details the various ways in which the spin fails to take certain results… Read More ›
Brian McKinstry whines about women taking over medicine
This prat thinks there are too many women in medicine, recklessly dragging quality standards up. For some reason, the British Medical Journal decided to host a trite debate on the subject, “Are there too many female medical graduates?” The “Yes”… Read More ›
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