This month, the British medical journal Lancet retracted a peer-reviewed study done by Andrew Wakefield. The paper was retracted because Wakefield apparently provided false information in the study and perhaps tried to cook the numbers to promote his cause and his career. He’s also under investigation for serious professional misconduct. Who is Andrew Wakefield and …
Monthly Archive: February 2010
Feb 10 2010
Big fat wide open thread
[Pokes head in door] Oh, hi all. Sorry it’s been quiet here the last few days. Weather’s been sucky, Matt’s sick with something, no clue where everyone else is but I imagine it involves having jobs and lives, and I am at present umbilically attached to Bioshock 2. So you folks can have this one …
Feb 06 2010
The intellectual entirety of the Tea Party movement in one screencap
Cue the fail at the Teabagger Convention: Here’s cover girl Sarah Palin, after banking 100 large to give a speech slamming overspending and greed, answering one of the pre-screened questions by looking at notes written on her hand. As a number of folks have already remarked, most of us were a little more subtle about …
Feb 04 2010
Counter-protesting Phelps in SanFran: doin it rite!
Via Dawkins’ site, I come upon this post at Laughing Squid reporting on a recent protest by — oh great, them again — Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church at San Francisco’s Twitter offices, and the counter-protest by locals. Note the tone is one of glorious, effusive mockery, as seen in the example below. More where …
Feb 04 2010
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
This Sunday we’ll be examining some hymn lyrics. The background will be orthodox Christian doctrine: That man is faulty and requires salvation. The price chosen and dictated by Yahweh is execution/blood sacrifice of a perfect human. Jesus, sent from god, is that sinless human who represents the “spotless lamb” so often sacrificed by Hebrews in …
Feb 03 2010
Global Warming Denial and God Belief
I’ve often wondered why the religious nuts are most often the most vocal against global warming. On the surface, it seems incongruous. When the topic is God, they prop up the flimsiest evidence and put their fingers in their ears, yelling “la la la” when there is solid evidence against supernatural belief. When the topic …
Feb 02 2010
The View From the Rear View Mirror
To Senator McCain – want some cheese to go with that whine? You could have gone down in history as the guy who stood up to a bad law that’s cost us 13,000 service members in its 17 year history. Instead, you’ll just be the cranky old guy we left in the 20th century. That …
Feb 01 2010
Odds and ends
Other Work has kept me from posting over the weekend, but I thought I’d just toss a few kernels of corn to all you lovely pigeons! The latest entry in the “Dumbass Utterances from Texas SBOE Members” Sweepstakes: An article at the Texas Tribune informs us that not only is the SBOE incompetent at determining …
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