How Not to Report Science
One of the stories in the news today is about a study showing that no, US presidents don’t have their lifespans shortened by the rigors of office. The AP writes: Using life expectancy data for men the...
View ArticleNatural Selection in the Fossil Record
table.figure { background-color: #f0f0f0; } table.figure caption { caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; padding: 1em; background-color: #f0f0f0; } For quite some time now, I’ve had a question: We can...
View ArticleWhat’s Three Orders of Magnitude Among Friends?
(Alternate title: “Numbers Mean Things”.) The increasingly-irrelevant Uncommon Descent blag had a post today, commenting on an article in Science News. Right now, UD’s post is entitled “Timing of human...
View ArticleCatholic Church 99 44/100% Pure
BillDo has a post in which he plays down the Catholic priesthood’s image problem: Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the findings of the 2011 Annual Report on priestly sexual abuse that...
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Lens Flare in the Eye of the Beholder
We’re all familiar with lens flare, those circles of light that appear in a photo or video when the camera points too close to the sun. When the scene is too bright, light bounces off of camera parts...
View ArticleI’d Rather Have a Long List of Scary Warnings than Nothing at All
I recently participated in a coversation—or maybe I’m conflating two or more conversations, but no matter—in which my interlocutor said that she prefers alt-med natural remedies because mainstream...
View ArticleWho Needs an Ultimate Source of Authority?
Over at Creation Today, Paul Hovind (son of Kent “Dr. Dino” Hovind) and Eric Taylor have a video entitled What Is Your Ultimate Source of Authority?. The blurb says, Paul and Eric welcome guest Jay...
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Paul Taylor’s Fickle Exactness
Paul Taylor, who helps Eric Hovind run the family misinformation mill in the absence of his father Kent, accuses people who think Noah’s Ark was just a story of not having done our homework: Question...
View ArticleThe Ken Ham vs. Bill Nye Debate
I watched the debate between Bill Nye “The Science Guy” and Ken Ham, director of Answers in Genesis, the outfit that runs the creation museum in Kentucky. When I heard that Nye had agreed to the...
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“Cosmos” Misrepresents Why Man Was Set on Fire, Claims Inquisition Apologist
Every Who down in Whoville liked Cosmos a lot… But the BillDo, who lived just north of who-cares, did NOT! The tireless defender of all things Catholic (unless it’s things like 99% of Catholics...
View ArticleFDA Homeopathy Circus, Day 2
Yesterday was day two of homeopathy hearings at the FDA. There were some audio and connectivity problems, and again, I was distracted, but I tried to pay some attention. One or two presenters tried to...
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