I have been following the story of one Marcus Ross, granted a Ph.D. in geoscience from the University of Rhode Island, who just happens to adhere to the belief that the Earth is no more than 10,000 years old. Bit of a conundrum.
Janet Stemwedel did a great piece on the intellectual honesty (or lack thereof) [...]
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A fascinating story about a memo sent to lawmakers in several states from Georgia State representative Ben Bridges. It asks the state legislatures to ban evolution because evolution is a “…scenario [that] is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.” [Link to original memo]
Ben Bridges denies [...]
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I’m sure many of you are aware of the latest development in the blogosphere and the scientific community at large. It’s the big, bad Conservapedia. The good news is you basically can’t go to this site because it’s brutally slow right now, the bad news is it’s slow probably because of the volume of traffic it’s [...]
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I’m not one to make a routine habit of reading journal’s, blogs or other material that is very biased one direction or another. I don’t read Al Franken for the same reason I don’t read Ann Coulter. However there is an excellent article that caught my eye in my Google Reader that I just couldn’t [...]
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The Freakonomics blog has an interesting entry regarding the Climate Change “debate” and how much it’s reported even in notable business journals, such as the Wall Street Journal.
Check it out, The Momentum of Climate Change.
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The U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing, entitled “State of Cliemate Change Science”, in which scientists involved with the IPCC report were questioned. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) took his opportunity to speak to ask a question he made the following statement instead.
We don’t know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. [...]
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