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Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
February 28, 2006
dlamming is back with yet another post where he waves his hands frantically to distract from his own distortions and misrepresentations. He begins: Well, after a number of back-and-forth comments, Ed Brayton finally said "I don't believe that educated people...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:51 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Sports
Woody Paige of ESPN is reporting that Thomas has been summoned to Texas to meet with James Dolan, the owner of the Knicks, and that he is going to be fired in the next couple days. Whether it happens now...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:07 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Pop Culture
Just when you thought you'd seen it all, allow me to show you once again just how immensely ridiculous human beings can be. From the "truth is always way funnier than fiction" department: Nine former fans of American Idol star...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:05 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Some of the other ScienceBloggers have been writing about this amusing little blog carnival called "Darwin is Dead". This is really elementary school-level creationist apologetics. It includes an entry from "highboy", a minister in training whose blog features a picture...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:09 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Politics
As the old song from The Wiz says - you can't win, you can't break even, you can't get out of the game. Via Radley Balko comes this libertarian joke: Three guys are in a jail cell. They start to...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:43 AM • 8 Comments •
February 27, 2006
Category: Intelligent Design
No, not the bill on gay straight clubs, though that would make the metaphor in the title of this post much funnier. His anti-evolution bill has been rejected by the Utah state legislature: The Utah House of Representatives voted 46-28...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:27 PM • 6 Comments •
You gotta love this. dlamming has a new follow-up post wherein he makes this highly amusing statement: I called this position the absolute worst form of elitism. Now, Ed Brayton has a new post up, in which he admits he...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 5:03 PM • 22 Comments •
Jon Rowe has an excellent essay on the concept of natural law, its influences on the founding of this country, and the problem with taking Aquinas too seriously in this regard. Well worth reading....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Via another blog I found this post by someone named dlamming responding to my post about the DI's infamous list of "dissenting" scientists. Unfortunately, dlamming spends most of his time attacking a straw man version of what I said and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:53 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Politics
Clark Kent Ervin, former inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, has an op-ed piece in the NY Times addressing concerns about the takeover of American ports by a UAE-owned company. It's not exactly comforting: While the United Arab...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:44 PM • 4 Comments •
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