Mike Dunford is a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studies evolution. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with.
April 30, 2008
Category: "Supporting" the Troops
Back at the beginning of April, ATA airlines suddenly went out of business. With no prior warning, they filed for bankruptcy and suspended all flights. This decision was sparked by FedEx's still unexplained decision to drop ATA from the...
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April 22, 2008
Category: Presidential
Senator Hillary Clinton has apparently decided to join John McCain in calling for a "gas tax" holiday for the summer. Their plan would suspend the 18.4 cent per gallon tax on gas (and the 24.4 cent tax on diesel...
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Category: Public Perception of Science
On Sunday, Chris Mooney and Randy Olsen both tried to make the case that Ben Stein's "Evolution Caused the Holocaust" movie was a success at the box office. Both of them have been rather spectacularly condemned for calling Expelled...
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April 17, 2008
Category: Anti-Evolutionism
Casey Luskin is currently in the middle of a multi-part "rebuttal" to Michael Shermer's review of Expelled. In the latest installment of his whine, Casey (again) brings up the case of Richard Sternberg. Sternberg, some of you might remember,...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 11:36 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 15, 2008
Category: Accidental
Bruce Chapman has an article up over at the Discovery Institute's Media Complaints blog that is really a must read. There are several statements in there that would qualify as absurd even by DI standards (like the one where...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 1:15 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 7, 2008
Category: Politics
The anticipation of reading is almost always wonderful, but the actual reading is often frustrating. You can spend hours enjoying the wonderful indecision of the bookstore before you walk away with the comforting weight of a new release hardcover...
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April 3, 2008
Category: Climate/Weather
This one probably isn't the hardest quiz I've come up with, but give it a shot anyway. Here's the question: how is the specific airplane in this picture connected to atmospheric science research? Let's try something new this week:...
Posted by Mike Dunford at 11:25 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 1, 2008
Category: Religion in Schools
It would seem that Mike Behe has, once again, managed to shoot an own goal in the courtroom.
Posted by Mike Dunford at 3:50 PM • 179 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion in Schools
After so much time spent working on behalf of creationist groups, it probably shouldn't be surprising that Judge Otero spotted many of the same argument tactics in the Christian schools' legal filings that we see when we look at the day to day output of anti-evolution groups such as the Discovery Institute.
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Category: Religion in Schools
On Friday, Judge James Otero of the Central District of California issued a ruling granting the University of California's request for partial summary judgment in the California Creationist Lawsuit. I've written about this case several times before now, but...
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