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Between various debates lately where most of the arguments take the form of “we haven’t answered X question, therefore god,” this image made me smile a little extra big.
Archive for the ‘science’ Category
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Religion and science not compatible. /obvious day
April 2nd, 2012 
JT Eberhard From the American Sociological Association. While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservatives by more than 25 percent during the same period, according to new research from Gordon Gauchat, a postdoctoral fellow at the [...]
Mountain Dew Mice: Week 3
January 27th, 2012 Christina Have a biydo! Learn more about Christina and follow her @ziztur.
Correlation between abortion rates and illegality
January 21st, 2012 Christina Christina here… Lookit: somebody recently released an observational study on abortion rates, which the media reported with headlines such as, “Abortion Rates Are Higher In Countries Where Procedure Is Illegal, Study Finds.” I love it when researchers release new studies! … but I hate it when secondary sources like the one above don’t bother to link [...]
Results of Mountain Dew Mice Experiment
January 13th, 2012 Christina Here, have a bidyo! The results of one week of soaking mice in various substances, including Mountan Dew, are in. Learn more about Christina and follow her @ziztur.
VLOG: Dissolving Mice in Mountain Dew
January 5th, 2012 Christina For your viewing pleasure, have a bideo. I’ll pretend to kitchen science for you! Hopefully my friend Sarah (who filmed) and I will amuse (and possibly disgust) you. Learn more about Christina and follow her @ziztur.
Mountain Dew Mice Experiment Begins!
January 4th, 2012 Christina I told you I was serious. Yesterday I posted a quick post about doing experiments with mice after reading Pepsi’s explanation about why a mouse could not have been found in a can of Mountain Dew. Apparently, a man from Illinois allegedly grabbed a can of Mountain Dew from a vending machine, opened it, drank, [...]
What a Bunch of Rubes
January 4th, 2012 JT Eberhard The contents of this post represent the opinions of JT Eberhard, not the Secular Student Alliance. What does it say of Christianity that, when wielded by some people who are utter rubes, clueless about both history or science, that their belief in the absurd can trump actual intelligence in the eyes of the voting populace? [...]
Mountain Dew and Mice? EXPERIMENT TIME!
January 3rd, 2012 Christina I read this news article on Pepsi’s defense of a man who claimed to have found a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew. Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda would have [...]
(Effect) Size Matters
January 3rd, 2012 Christina Christina here… Today I shall science you about research literature and the impact measures of effect size have on detecting the magnitude of effect of some researched treatment modality. I’ll try to present this information for the lay reader interested in science and in learning how to read and interpret research literature. This might serve as [...]
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