Is it true that

intellectual dishonesty would get anyone canned from a tenured university position.

Maybe. but being an unmitigated racist asshat is apparently not.

Denailists have a repertoire of gambits they use to spread their denialism and make their points. They need these gambits because they otherwise lack facts, cred, usable theory, or any of the other good stuff that makes science, history, etc. work.

James Hrynyshyn has written a post about a publisher trying to pretend to be the victim of kool-aid drinking scientists, which is a ploy to increase sales of a dumb-ass AGW denialiist book. It is a very interesting development: The climate change boycott gambit

Sci Curious takes a poke at the recent G-spot research (which we discussed here) in this post: Friday Weird Science: the “reality” of the G Spot and the mainstream media. Sci reviews the actual, original research paper.

When I post about race, the racists show up and use my blog to spew their hokey science all over the place. There are reasons that I tolerate that to a certain extent, but there are limits. When a student shows up in a classroom and starts asking “innocent” questions of the teacher about “radiocarbon dating” and “transitional fossils” and such the teacher is being played by the student, who was likely trained (as it were) by some crazy yahoo parent or preacher. When AGW denialists show up on a science blog and start quoting from the famous stolen emails … same thing.

If such abuse of blog space or classroom time happens again and again and again, the person to whom it is happening has to be considered, eventually, a bit of a chump. As in “Charlie Brown is such a chump”

And by that, I mean…
Continue reading Don’t be anybody’s Charlie Brown →

Happy New Year and welcome to this new “on-line journal” which will be a collection of essays. It will be sort of a continuation of thoughts from my book, “Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style.” In the essays, which will be roughly twice a week, I will be making reference to parts of the book from time to time.

Check it out

Are you for a pro-gay marriage bill currently being considered in New Jersey or against it?

There’s a poll.

This is a tough one. PZ’ minions are making a dent but not enough. So I respectfully request all eleven of my readers to head over there and help out.

As you know, Heathrow is the world’s largest and busiest airport, second only to Schiphol in Amsterdam and JFK in New York. All three are eclipsed, of course, by O’Hare in Chicago and Minneapolis/Saint Paul airport in Bloomington, Minnesota.

…. read on …

You may remember this theory regarding the extinction of the dinosaurs:

Now, there’s this …
Continue reading New Theories of Noah’s Ark →

George Bush and Barack Obama compared on the Terror Issue:

Continue reading Terror and Politics →

The Family is a fundamentalist group with thousands of members across the world (by their own admission) bent on inserting their religious perspective into national and global politics. It is documented (in part) in The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet.

In recent weeks, Rachel Maddow has been documenting and exposing The Family’s role in developing and advancing legislation to systematically murder gays and their sympathizers in Uganda (the President of Uganda is a member of The Family). This exposure appears to have resulted in this powerful organization putting reverse pressure on Uganda. We expect to see further movement in this area. If things work out as they seem to be working out, a lot of people will have Rachel Maddow to thank.

Continue reading The Family: “You forced us to go public” with Ugandan Kill the Gay Bill Problem →

Remember this?

If not, you missed one of the great moments on the intertubes. These kids are Krazy In Love!

Now, CLICK HERE and shell out five loonies for the happy couple!!!!

Soccer practice was brutal. The hot summer heat made every drill twice as hard as usual. Everybody was a little bit off of their game, however I was particularly sluggish. The coaches called for a water break after finally noticing that our dehydration was significantly affecting our performance. I was dragging my feet on the way to the water cooler when one of my coaches, Brett, pulled me aside from the rest of the players.

Read the post

..The Janus Edition is now up at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog. Click here to read this plant blog carnival.

A tuna has been sold at auction in Tokyo’s fish market for 16.28 million yen ($175,000, £109,000), the highest price paid in Japan for nine years.

The bluefin tuna weighs 232 kg – nearly four times as much as the average Japanese man.

It was caught off the northern tip of Japan’s main island of Honshu, in waters famed for high quality fish.

Mind boggling.

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Whenever I see something like this I go and read the Guilty Planet blog for a while. Today I will eat salad garnished with tofu for lunch.