Paul H. Rubin writes over at washingtonpost.com about Evolution, Immigration and Trade. The article makes the point that seeing larger “moral” groups is difficult because it goes against our evolutionary programming and the traditional “small-group societies” that most of humanity is brought up in. He goes on to say,
As products of evolution, humans cannot help [...]
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The autism-vaccine connection is going to the U.S. Federal Claims court in which 4800 parents are claiming that they governments vaccination program caused their childrens autism. Read about it further at Slate, Thimerosal on Trial.
Here is some further reading from Steven Novella, MD of the New England Skeptics Society and Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe [...]
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Are you ready to take the Green Challenge from Slate.com? Signup for the quiz if you aren’t already a member of Slate.
Here are also 7 weeks worth of tips for reducing your carbon footprint
Travel Light (Transportation)
Warm Up (Heating)
Green Food (More local veggies, less meat)
Closet Case (Less cotton, more hemp and bamboo)
Body Electric (Electrical use)
Water Works [...]
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Not to keep hammering on Oprah but here is an article, Pessimist Nation, from Slate detailing the results of their Think Negative campaign. This email campaign was started after the following,
Not too long ago, one of your viewers—a woman named Kim—wrote you to announce that she had decided to halt her breast-cancer treatments and [...]
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I stumbled across this extraordinarily sad example of damage that can be done to someone from believing that “The Secret” and the Laws of Attraction are anything but a load of psychobabble and lies. This stuff just enrages me, especially when it comes to child abuse. Oh and guess who is promoting this stuff, Oprah!!!
The [...]
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bug_girl over at Skepchick gave their faithful audience a heads up that Nica Lalli, author of the book Nothing: Something to believe in, would be facing off with Kenneth Ham (of Creation Nauseum fame) on Fox & Friends. I made a point to tune in and was very fortunate to only have to sit through [...]
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Pharyngula has a huge round up of 75+ posts from the blogosphere and news sites detailing the travesty that is known as the Creation Museum. A huge kudos to PZ Meyers for all the time and effort he has put into this. Make sure you Digg the article when you get there.
Technorati Skeptic
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David Plotz has been “Blogging the Bible” since September of 2006. Plotz is “a proud Jew, but never a terribly observant one”. His commentary is sometimes hilarious and sometime enlightening and always interesting. Interesting because here’s someone of Jewish descent who is reading the Torah (Christan Old Testament) for the first time, ever. His introduction tells of him sitting [...]
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SciAm article, How Fins Became Fingers, I wonder if the Tiktaalik fossil (half-fish, half-tetrapod) mentioned at the end of the article would qualify for Ray ‘Banana-man’ Comfort’s $10,000 transitionary fossil prize.
Here’s the $10,000 offer as quoted from the website
The $10,000 Offer
A transitional form (or missing link) is an example of one species “evolving” into another [...]
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Slate.com has the complete debate about religion between Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens at the New York Public Library. This is the debate in which Al Sharpton said of Mitt Romney “…those that really believe in God will defeat him anyway”. The whole thing lasts about an hour and a half so make sure you [...]
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