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• comment on: He knows geography, too? »

  This is the welcome page for the dietguidance.us Association web site.

  Posted by: Dietroly »

• comment on: He knows geography, too? »

  This is the welcome page for the dietguidance.us Association web site.

  Posted by: Dietroly »

• comment on: The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't »

  Phil should have a long time in prison trying to remember why he, Caspar, Keith and the other 'Good Ole Boys' were deleting AR4, and the court case should help clear up the mess around Mike's trick (was it successful? - let's wait and see). Fun and games!!

  Posted by: Damo »

• comment on: The problem of the oblivious white male atheist »

  Pinker is a bigot in the way that all EPs might be said to be bigots - he isn't saying that it's a happy fact that women are intellectually inferior - only that it is an evolutionarily-endowed fact.

  And he considers obvious right-wing shills whose main job is to attack feminists to be actual feminists.

  Just as those who buy into the inferiority of non-whites can justify their beliefs - ala Charles Murray, through "science" - certainly it's not bigotry.

  Pinker also believes that Stephen Jay Gould's opinion on the subject if EP should be discounted because, Pinker claims, Gould was a Marxist.

  Clearly only left-wing political views make your scientific expertise invalid, as far as EPs are concerned.

  Posted by: Nancy »

• comment on: He knows geography, too? »

  This is the welcome page for the dietguidance.us Association web site.

  Posted by: Dietroly »

• comment on: Palin the Creationist »

  berbel the moron- "Science provides theories and then conducts experiments to prove the theory. If an experiment provides statistically accurate data after it is repeated numerous times the theory becomes accepted and can eventually become law."

  Well done. You've achieved full "moron" status (that's right, m-o-r-o-n. There, I spelled it for you) and are now working your way down to brain dead.

  Posted by: Rick R »

• comment on: The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't »

  @Nils Ross:

  I am insinuating that the context is a straw man, so any e-mails that don't reveal a global conspiracy would be appropriately deemed banal. Suffice to say, this makes it easy to ignore the severity of everything else revealed, and again, bad journalism.

  Posted by: Surely »

• comment on: Casual Fridays: What makes a good writer, and what motivates them? »

  Thanks for the (significant) effort that you put into this. Good read.

  Posted by: Pala »

• comment on: Escape from the planet of the cursed undead heart of the vengeful bride of the son of the thread that will not die! »

  Jadehawk, Dyslexia and the Cocktail Party effect is probably not relevant (or only tangentially relevant) to what you describe above @#247, but I figured I would link it anyway.

  (I was originally drawn to the fascinating description of time-space synaesthesia, and noticed the prior posting)

  Posted by: Owlmirror »

• comment on: Schadenfreude again over David Irving »

  You think Hagee gave him his blessings?,yes

  There's an obnoxious video of Hagee on youtube where---get this---he predicts that the coming antiChrist will be Jewish and gay. Anyone here wants to hazard a guess as to who this "faygala" may be? lol

  p.s. David Irving is not just an antisemite. He is also a white supremacist.

  p.p.s. Please excuse the slang.

  Posted by: PeterD »

• comment on: "Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama": The USPSTF recommendations for mammography used as a political weapon »

  I don't undertand. Why are people overreacting? Don't the new recommendations make some sense? There might be some weaknesses, and pointing them out is good. But instead, people are demonizing the new recommendations without having the necessary knowledge. I wonder, what is driving this overreaction?

  Posted by: IBY »

• comment on: The problem of the oblivious white male atheist »

  Nancy:

  [Pinker] completely supports the Thornhill-Palmer rape-as-adaptation claims

  Someone help me out here, because I'm not sure whether it is Pinker who is guilty of a naturalistic fallacy, or if perhaps it's Nancy and a moralistic fallacy.

  Nancy, if you could address either or both of those claims (preferably without calling me "a gigantic douchebag"), then I highly recommend that you do so. Because, at this point, I'm not inclined to believe that Pinker is in any way a bigot.

  Posted by: Mr T »

• comment on: The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't »

  Here's another quote, you can look it up yourself - I'm not quite believing, that you can say it's merely "banal" for a scientist to say a thing such as this:

  from file: 1107454306.txt

  At 09:41 AM 2/2/2005, Phil Jones wrote:

  "The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone."

  So here we have a "scientist" talking about DESTROYING IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DATA rather than letting another person analyze it. This is data that is important to the whole world! And this .. person ... would rather destroy it than see someone test it against a competing hypothesis!?!

  That's "banal" ?? It's no big deal ??

  ARE YOU KIDDING ME ?? What kind of scientist even considers, even jokingly, destroying vital data that is being used in world-changing political decisions? Don't these people feel any responsibility at all to science?

  Posted by: Chris Salmon »

• comment on: A dose of H1N1 flu anti-woo »

  Do not feed the troll.

  thank you Chris and Prometheus

  Posted by: Dr. P »

• comment on: AAP reports from the future »

  Can I ask all those of the warming persuasion here, do you still defend the "stick" as strongly as the "team"?

  Posted by: spangled drongo »

• comment on: The Reading Brain »

  Intriguing review, Jonah, on what looks like a long overdue book. I'm curious--were you convinced by his argument about phonics versus whole language? The fact that printed language is perceptually geared for a certain brain architecture does not sound, on the face of it, like a compelling reason to rule out so-called whole language approaches. Considering the two-path architecture along with the multiple areas required for semantic processing that you summarize earlier in the review, wouldn't the best pedagogy demand some cross-training?

  Posted by: Tim Horvath »

• comment on: The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't »

  Surely, I'm not sure if you missed a crucial conjunction in your last response. Would you clarify your position? You said "it is very apt..."; did you mean "it is NOT very apt..."?

  Posted by: Nils Ross »

• comment on: Why I won't be prescribing medical marijuana »

  If we want to study THC as a therapeutic, why not purify it, control the dosage and find a safe means of delivery?

  we have! d9-THC has been purified, put in an oral capsule form, and even approved by the FDA for use in certain conditions.
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a607054.html

  but it's not plant material, so the MM advocates remain dissatisfied.

  Posted by: another pseudonym »

• comment on: Atheists with vaginas. »

  All that said, I also like meeting atheists with vagina.

  +1: I like atheists.

  +1: I also like vaginas.

  So so an atheist with a vagina is like a +2 win for me. ^_^

  Posted by: Daniel Schealler »

• comment on: The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't »

  I find it hilarious that someone talks of "ethical subroutines" when these scientists are committing fraud, destroying e-mails, cheering at the death of opponents, etc.

  Laughable, actually.

  Posted by: Justin »

• comment on: How sweet »

  Interesting and informative. But will you write about this one more?

  Posted by: Floost »

• comment on: Believe it or not: A Black Hole Question! »

  I THINK, according to relativity, yes, light would stay on.

  Posted by: Sophos »

• comment on: KKMS, always quick to defend the fools »

  If there really is 'Genetic Entropy' and we are steadily getting uglier and more deformed with every generation, then WHY are there Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie???????

  Posted by: TonyC »

• comment on: What will you do to oppose the dark? »

  It was very interesting for me to read this blog. Thanx for it. I like such themes and anything connected to them. I would like to read more soon.

  Posted by: Escorts in London »

• comment on: Atheists with vaginas. »

  Y'see? This is the stuff that makes me wonder what the fuck is going on.

  It's just something I've picked up out of the cultural miasma that I'm supposed to nicer to teh wimminz so they can get an equal footing with us strapping and virile menfolk.

  And I've always thought that was kinda fucked up and condescending, cause, like, it implies that women are poor wee frail things that need our testosterone-endorsed patronage in order to get ahead. But whenever I read up on the topic, I generally come away with the impression that as I'm white and middle-class with a college degree and a penis, therefore everything is my fault. And I should be very, very sorry. About everything.

  Then I read something by a woman that I've noticed for an
  accomplishment other than writing about feminism, and I come away thinking I was right all along about that syrupy condescending crap.

  Fuck it. Thanks erv: I'm gonna stick with my first impression on this one.

  Posted by: Daniel Schealler »