I required some dental work today and had an interesting conversation with the lady who was doing some work on my teeth. As many people who have seen me on the SSA hangout or on one of Ed Brayton’s, they would know that I am one of those old guys with braces. I wore them …
Category Archive: Skeptic
Apr 25 2013
I Get Mail – Hating My Soapbox
An incident on Reddit made me field a bunch of letters which complain about censorship on my blog and claims that it is an invalid source.
Apr 25 2013
TrueU – Because Education challenges Superstition
Focus on the Family’s got a new plan. Basically? University and College is pretty poor for “faith” in dogmatic religions. There is little to no onus to keep going to a church and you are suddenly thrown into a mixing bowl of people who are nothing like the small groups you are used to and …
Apr 23 2013
Deepak Chopra, TED and Game of Thrones
Am I the only one who wishes the SI unit for “bullshitting about science” to be measured in Deepak Chopras? Here is the thing. Simply being liberal doesn’t mean you should move away from what people consider as “big pharmacy”. Pharmacy is entrenched in “Big Business” which is benefitted by the low taxes and reduced …
Apr 17 2013
Vulture Brigade
There is a tendency among a lot of people who cannot understand a tragedy to utilise it to strengthen their delusional world view. The Boston Marathon Attack has had these “fine” outstanding individuals come boiling out of the woodwork. They cannot accept any such attack without a nefarious plot (well more nefarious than kill random …
Apr 14 2013
Not the Quacks! – Eleven Angry Strawmen on Vaccines
Carolyn Flannery’s article on vaccines up on Age of Autism is the strawmanniest of strawman arguments with regards to vaccines. And look! She’s got it laid out in a list! Without faffing about, lets dig in to Eleven Vaccine Myths No One Will Say to Our Face.
May 18 2012
Mythbuster
Stand Back! We are going to try Science! No… Not these guys. These guys are pretty good!No. No we are dealing with Natural News not the mix of engineering and physics and hard science not to mention statistics that goes into the actual Mythbusters. Instead we have something that can only charitably described as fiction. …
May 07 2012
Exterminate!
Oh no! They have found our darkest secrets, move forward to phase II my minions! They have forced me to reveal my hand early. But no matter they will fall before me like myotonic goats before a firework display! On a more serious note? This is pretty much par for the course for Natural News …
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