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• LGF Diavlog at New York Times

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 573
  A clip from my Bloggingheads discussion with Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation has been posted at the New York Times video page today: Bloggingheads: Conservative Fascism? - Video Library - The New York Times . Notice how Carroll tosses in a blatant straw man argument at the conclusion of this clip, accusing ...
  5 hours ago

• Louisiana Education Board Considers Sneaking Creationism Into Schools

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 573
  They laid low for more than a year, waiting for attention to go elsewhere, but the Louisiana Family Forum and right wing Republican legislators are now poised to use Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill to sneak the teaching of this anti-science doctrine into public ...
  6 hours ago

• JLo supports reality

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 708
  I am not all that big on celebrity endorsements, but I do understand that they can be very beneficial in getting the word out on important topics ot people who might not otherwise hear it. So I’m pleased to see that Jennifer Lopez did a short video about the benefits of vaccination against pertussis for a website ...
  6 hours ago

• Vaccines work

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 708
  I just wanted to post this graph, which I found while researching vaccinations. Antivaxxers: bite me * . We win. * Of course, antivaxxers would never bite me. Since I’m fully vaccinated, they might get autism or mercury poisoning or accidentally catch my reality cooties.
  14 hours ago

• Homeopathy and the 10:23 project

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 708
  I received a mysterious email recently, promoting what to me sounds like a great idea: a concerted effort in the UK to increase the public awareness that homeopathy is quackery, pure and simple. It’s called the 10:23 Campaign , and it’s being promoted by various skeptic groups in Britain. The website is a ...
  1 day ago

• LGF on Bloggingheads.tv

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 573
  Here’s your humble Lizard Overlord discussing the issues of the day (via webcam) with the Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll, who gets increasingly agitated as the issues start to get closer to his biases — finally accusing me of being “pro-death” and “pro-euthanasia.” [Video not shown]
  3 days ago

• Teacher who pushed religion still having job hearing

  
  Secular Left — Authority: 109
  T he case of John Freshwater, the Mount Vernon Ohio teacher who tried to teach his religious beliefs in his 8th grade class room is still going on more than a year since the news broke. They are currently finishing up direct witness testimony for an employment hearing that has lasted 14 months and cost has cost the ...
  6 days ago

• California Science Institute Sued for Canceling Creationist Film

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 573
  The California Science Center in Los Angeles is being sued by a right wing group called the American Freedom Alliance (that claims to be “non-partisan”), for canceling a “documentary” film that features anti-evolution propaganda from the creationist “think tank” known as the Discovery Institute . ...
  1 week ago

• Berkeley high school to close science department to eliminate racial disparities

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 520
  Story from East Bay Express . (H/T ECM) Excerpt: The proposal would trade labs seen as benefiting white students for resources to help struggling students. Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources ...
  1 week ago

• In the company of woo

  
  Friendly Humanist — Authority: 115
  I find myself in the company of woo , and as a skeptic it is bringing me some grief. Its all about homebirth - planning to deliver a baby at home, attended by a midwife, rather than in a hospital. Deena and I came to homebirth through an examination of the evidence. ( Heres a discussion I participated in on the ...
  1 week ago

• New and Improved. Now with Lemon!

  
  Swans on Tea — Authority: 443
  Uncertainty in Science: It’s a Feature, Not a Bug People tend to think of scientific progress as always advancing in a straight line, with new facts being added permanently to our body of knowledge as they are discovered. “They do not understand that, instead, research is an ungainly mechanism that moves in ...
  1 week ago

• Santa goes viral

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 708
  So, what did Santa bring you this year? Yay! Measles! Image credit: Ironically, ABC Family.
  1 week ago

• Call to astronomers to report Unidentified Aerial Phenomona

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 708
  I have been saying for years that a) most UFOs are simply misidentified mundane phenomena (satellites, meteors, balloons, Venus, weird clouds, even the Moon) and that 2) if they were real, astronomers — who spend a lot more time looking at the sky than your average person — should be reporting most of them. My ...
  1 week ago

• A Reply to David Frum

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 573
  David Frum quotes my post about Minnesota Governor Pawlenty and his support for teaching “intelligent design” creationism to public school children, and takes exception to my remarks: A Problem for Pawlenty . Johnson’s comment seems to me radically unfair. Pawlenty is a model of sensible modern conservatism. ...
  1 week ago

• Palin Twitters: The Return of Death Panels

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 573
  She’s found her fear-mongering story and she’s sticking to it, no matter how stupid or deceptive: Sarah Palin (SarahPalinUSA) on Twitter : ..merged bill may b unrecognizable from what assumed was a done deal:R death panels back in?what’s punishment 4not purchasing mandated HC? Ahhh! Ahhh! Death panels! ...
  2 weeks ago

• Washington Post washes its hands with passive voice re climate change confusion

  
  Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! — Authority: 584
  The Washington Post / ABC News 13 Dec 09 poll had both some gloomy and some bright news when it comes to Americans’ perspectives about climate change and how/whether we should act in response to them.The Post/ABC poll and The Post’s 18 Dec 09 reporting of it in On environment, Obama and scientists take hit [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Inspired Onion

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 708
  I love The Onion . It is that simple. I hope someone was eating a banana when they wrote that piece. Sam Harris put it pretty well: the timing of when young Earth creationists claim God created the Universe, "… is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue."
  2 weeks ago

• Hey, the stupid really DOES burn

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 708
  So there’s a video of actress Jessica Simpson which is burning up (hahahahahahaha!) the internet right now. Her friend gave her an ear candle for Christmas, and she’s using it in the video: I love this video, for a lot of reasons. First, as should be obvious to anyone who prefers not to set their head on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Libel Reform campaign now online!

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 708
  I have talked here many times about the atrocious libel laws in England, and how they are used by cranks and crackpots (and others) to clamp down on freedom of speech. Most notably, skeptic Simon Singh is being victimized by the British Chiropractic Association, who decided to sue him rather than actually defend ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama sets a good example

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 708
  I love a President who gets it. In general, science, and in particular, vaccinations: Yeah, he got his novel H1N1 vaccination, just like my daughter did a few hours ago, and just like I will as soon as they are available for adults in my area.
  2 weeks ago

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