Ed Brayton is a freelance writer 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.(static)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
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April 30, 2007
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The NFL draft is the only good day of the year for a Detroit Lions fan. It's the one day when we manage to delude ourselves in to thinking that the Lions have a shot at a winning record before...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:55 PM • 10 Comments
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Barney Frank's bill to legalize and regulate online gambling has been submitted as HR 2046. It has 11 co-sponsors, 9 Democrats and 2 Republicans. The full text is available here. The bill would establish a licensing and regulatory scheme for...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:36 AM • 7 Comments
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ScienceBlogs seems to have become the focus of a couple of controversies lately, one spawning the other. The first occurred when Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle was threatened with legal action by Wiley publishing for reproducing a chart and a graph...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:29 AM • 96 Comments
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Over at Pam's House Blend, Pam Spaulding writes about the predictable story of yet another moralist - this time the abstinence-only State Department official in charge of global AIDS policy - caught with his pants down. Quoting an ABC story:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:20 AM • 28 Comments
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Pim Van Meurs has an excellent post at the Panda's Thumb about junk DNA and ID. As he notes, many IDers like to crow every time an article appears that concludes that some portion of non-coding DNA has a previously...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:11 AM • 13 Comments
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Here's a very important article in the NY Times Magazine about how the government spends over $25 billion of our tax money to subsidize the worst food we can eat and artificially inflate the prices of foods that are good...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:06 AM • 10 Comments
April 29, 2007
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Jonah Goldberg makes a valuable point in this essay about why ignorance in the populace eliminates any reason to take polls seriously. He starts by going over some recent surveys on what Americans don't know: HUGE NUMBERS of Americans don't...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:35 AM • 34 Comments
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Mitt Romney isn't the only Republican presidential candidate snuggling up to the religious right and pretending to be against gay rights to win the nomination; Rudy Giuliani, who has a long track record of support for gay rights, is now...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:12 AM • 8 Comments
April 28, 2007
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This story is a bit dated, but in the wake of this week's hearings on the Pentagon's bucket full of lies and cover up of Pat Tillman's real cause of death, it's worth revisiting. Stan Goff, a former Rangers and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:19 AM • 19 Comments
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Remember the Kathryn Johnston case, the elderly woman gunned down by the Atlanta police department in her own home during a raid that was later found to be fake when the informant that the police forced to take part in...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:12 AM • 5 Comments
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A reader left a link to this article about a televised debate between Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort and the guys who originated the blasphemy challenge. On either side.I'll listen to a debate between, say, William Lane Craig and Quentin...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:06 AM • 8 Comments
April 27, 2007
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The New Hampshire senate passed a bill creating civil unions for gay couples, which the governor has already said he would sign. New Hampshire becomes the second state to pass civil unions purely through the legislative process without any court...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:53 PM • 16 Comments
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There are now a total of 10 MrDeity videos. I'll post 6 through 10 below the fold. They're brilliant as usual....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:31 AM • 5 Comments
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First it was Liz Hurley, now it's Richard Gere with an arrest warrant in India for offending people by - gasp - kissing someone in public. A local court in northern India Thursday issued arrest warrants for actors Richard Gere...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:25 AM • 5 Comments
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Here's an absurd story. A judge in Ohio gave a man accused of using a stolen credit card a lower bond than he otherwise would have after quizzing him and making him recite a Bible verse. Details below the fold:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:19 AM • 21 Comments
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I've long made fun of Chris Buttars as the looniest politico in the nation, but it seems he has a challenger in his own state in Don Larsen, the chairman of the Utah County Republican Party. Larsen says that immigration...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:13 AM • 5 Comments
