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Greg Laden, whom you might know from The Blogosphere, makes a good case that blogging about science, skepticism, et cetera, can actually help resolve long-standing questions a hell of a lot faster than traditional methods: Someone is always wrong on the Internet. The idea that the most free-wheeling part of the Internet–blogs–would be a place [...]
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News flash: blogs touching off firestorms IS actually helping!
May 21st, 2012 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics, Privilege, Pseudoscience 
Tags: blogosphere, conflict, pseudoscience, science, SIWOTI 
1 Comment »Supermoon: what it is, and what it definitely isn’t (a repost)
May 6th, 2012 Jason Thibeault A repost, apropos of this weekend’s supermoon and the fact that people are going bugnut over it… yet again… and Taslima seemed lonely in being the only other FtBer covering this one. My original post is here, published March 17, 2011. Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Science, Space Tags: astrology, earthquakes, moon, predictions, pseudoscience, science, skepticism, space, supermoon No Comments »Fifteen years of cell phones, still no uptick in cancer
April 28th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Sure, this Guardian article doesn’t frame it quite so vehemently, but I think after fifteen years, and the myriad studies done on the matter, the lack of appreciable increase in brain cancer rates should pretty much speak for itself. In the review, “Health Effects from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields” the advisory group considered hundreds of peer [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Science Tags: antiscience, cancer, cell phones, electromagnetic radiation, EMF, pseudoscience, science 6 Comments »Global warming does not improve plant productivity
April 16th, 2012 Jason Thibeault There’s a very short window where plants improve with more CO2, where they scrub more of it from the atmosphere than usual. This window is apparently overwhelmed in a hurry with the levels we’re seeing, though, resulting in crop die-outs which are exacerbated by warming-influenced droughts. This would, in a perfect world, shut up those [...]
Posted in Climate, Science Tags: AGW, climate change, denialism, global warming, pseudoscience, science denialism 15 Comments »Real genuine proof the moon landing (simulation) was a hoax!
February 4th, 2012 Jason Thibeault What do you get when you stitch together footage from NASA’s moon landing simulations prior to the Apollo project, with footage from the actual moon landing, with an audio track meant to make you pee with laughter? Well, you get a Youtube comments thread so full of facepalmingly poor logic and conspiracy theory that you [...]
Posted in Asshats, Pseudoscience, Space Tags: antiscience, denialism, hoaxes, moon landing, pseudoscience 4 Comments »Neti pots: potentially dangerous?
December 19th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Sorta kinda maybe. Depends on what kind of water you’re using. Turns out the popular but placebo home remedy for sinus issues might be a vector for catching slight cases of brain-munching amoeba infestation. But Louisiana’s taking no chances, after two people contracted primary amoebic meningoencephalitis after using a neti pot filled with tap water [...]
Michael Mann at TEDxPSU: “there’s still time”
December 13th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Michael Mann and his IPCC report, the hockey stick graph, which has (by the way) been vindicated in twelve subsequent papers as being accurate and correct in how steeply climate has changed since humans began emitting CO2, have essentially sealed the climate denialists’ fate. Unfortunately, these same climate denialists, by their systematic campaign of disinformation [...]
Posted in Climate, Science Tags: climate, climate change, denialism, global warming, hockey stick graph, Michael Mann, pseudoscience, science 1 Comment »Double X Science on pseudoscience
December 12th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Emily Willingham’s blog Double X Science is only about two months old, though I’ve followed her on Twitter for a long time now so I’ve been well aware she’s worth reading. She’s not alone in her new endeavour either — she has a bang-up host of contributors. Emily’s post from yesterday is worth highlighting, given [...]
Chopra: “I’m more aligned with Dawkins than O’Reilly’s thinking”
December 1st, 2011 Jason Thibeault You’ve gotta be shittin’ me. Deepak Chopra very publicly tore into Richard Dawkins on The O’Reilly Factor, then when he realized what an ass he came off as, apologized to Dawkins publicly… via Youtube.
Posted in Asshats, Pseudoscience, Religion Tags: apologetics, bill o'reilly, bullshit, deepak chopra, pseudoscience, richard dawkins 7 Comments »Christians laud Haitians’ godliness in face of all their oppression
November 29th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Reader Michael Fisher passed along a post by Christian sociologist Margarita A. Mooney of Black, White and Grey (a Patheos blog) lauding Haitians for turning to God in their extreme suffering. It is apparently a repost from her post last Thanksgiving, and it seems to wholly miss the crux of the issue: that being, the [...]
Posted in Asshats, Religion Tags: disaster relief, Haiti, opportunism, oppression, pseudoscience, religion, social causes 6 Comments »
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