Teach the (right) controversy
Category: Evolution Denialism
So, McCain's picked a running mate. We don't know much about her, but she has advocated "teaching the controversy" when...
Posted by PalMD at 12:44 PM • 21 Comments •
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Mark Hoofnagle has a MD and PhD in physiology from the University of Virginia, and is now a general surgery resident. His interest in denialism concerns the use of denialist tactics to confuse public understanding of scientific knowledge.
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Evolution Denialism:
Hello? Disco Institute? Are you reading?
Category: Evolution Denialism
Perhaps I have delusions of grandeur, but after all, this is the (checking) 15th ranked science blog on teh intertubes....
Posted by PalMD at 5:14 PM • 10 Comments •
Helpful hints for Creationist Cults
Category: Evolution Denialism
Answers Research Journal, the teleologic, Apologetic, unscientific screed put out by Answers in Genesis has so far done nothing resembling...
Posted by PalMD at 9:09 PM • 65 Comments •
L'affaire Lenski continues
Category: Evolution Denialism
When will the stupidity end? Really. When? As long as Conservapedia exists, the answer will elude us. The latest feculent...
Posted by PalMD at 5:09 PM • 14 Comments •
NNDB Map of the Discovery Institute
Category: Evolution Denialism
This is fun. Someone's created a new NNDB mapper on the Discovery Institute. It's called Theocracy Now!...
Posted by Chris H at 2:22 AM • 8 Comments •
Ham, Get on Message!
Category: Evolution Denialism
Jon Hurdle reports in today's Times on nine Philadelphia-based institutions that are planning a "Year of Evolution" program for February...
Posted by Chris H at 12:36 PM • 20 Comments •
Another of our failures as science educators
Category: Evolution Denialism
There's been much written around here about the NYT's David Brooks' foray in to non-materialist neuroscience. Well, today the letters...
Posted by PalMD at 4:09 PM • 27 Comments •
Open letter to the People of the great state of Florida
Category: Education
Dear Floridians, Greetings, and an early "hello"! I'm heading your way at the end of the week to spend my...
Posted by PalMD at 5:11 PM • 3 Comments •
Expelled as Holocaust denial
Category: Evolution Denialism
I've been reluctant to write about Expelled from the perspective of their abuse of the memory of the Holocaust. Ever...
Posted by MarkH at 10:27 AM • 19 Comments •
Expelled makes me sick, or it would if I were allowed to see it
Category: Evolution Denialism
If you haven't been keeping up, let me give you a quick heads up about this whole Expelled brouhaha. A...
Posted by PalMD at 8:42 PM • 8 Comments •
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