I’m not the only person to be annoyed over the years by the egregious overuse of the term “paradigm shift”. I knew people were misusing the term, but not having actually read Kuhn’s seminal work wherein he coined the term,… Read More ›
skepticism
Feminism and Romance – Rudman paper followup
So I have a copy of the Rudman paper asserting that not all us feminists are fugly lonely lezzos after all. (My first post on the issue is here.) My initial response consisted mainly of a rejection of the patriarchal… Read More ›
It’s a trap! Feminism, romance, and sociological patriarchy
I started writing this, then saw that a few of the big feminist bloggers have touched on it already. But the stuff I was writing has a somewhat different slant, so I plunged on regardless. This paper was published in… Read More ›
Anti-choice propaganda: following the source and the money
Some of you may have stumbled across a news article citing a fancy-sounding “study” by Peter Carroll of London’s Pension and Population Research Institute: “The Breast Cancer Epidemic: Modeling and Forecasts Based on Abortion and Other Risk Factors”. From the… Read More ›
Never too early to start your fetus wearing a tinfoil colander
Today’s Useless Baby Gear: Mummywraps! Planning your family, or baby already on the way? You want the best for your child, but how can you protect your precious bundle of joy against the potentially harmful electrosmog that swirls invisibly around… Read More ›
Yup, peanut butter convinces me!
This argument is so bizarre it’s not even wrong: it’s wrong’s cousin who’s never been the same since that nasty accident with the Klein bottle.
The mantle of Galileo
“Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.” — Robert Park This quote was presented in comments at Pharyngula some months ago now, reacting… Read More ›
MSM vs Bloggers Smackdown: MSM still languishing in coma.
Wiggle in her Walk: Anatolian Neolithic Goddess Anyone who still has faith in the veracity of mainstream media “science reporting” really, really needs to start reading Ben Goldacre at badscience.net, despite his grating misuse of prostitution metaphors. Goldacre has blasted… Read More ›
Butbutbutbut the US is the world, isn’t it?
This is the gist of a recent formulaic dummy spit from global warming skeptic Michael Duffy, arguing that a minor shift in US figures after re-analysis somehow implies something crucial about global changes which were measured differently. Penguin Unearthed dissects… Read More ›
Your friends make you fat
(Subtext: so if any of your mates are a wee bit plump you better drop them quick smart or you’ll be rooned, rooned! Yay, let’s make fat people even more socially isolated and scorned!) So say all the headlines and… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 