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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May 31, 2007
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This article on the new creation museum cracked me up. It focuses on the planetarium and the arguments for a young universe in it. Let's play "spot the logical fallacy": "We start from the Bible, and that's what makes it...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:31 AM • 63 Comments
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As I predicted yesterday, the threats of violence are already starting from the ultra-orthodox nutballs. Rabbi Oded Shmueli of the haredi sect warned the government not to approve the march, calling homosexuality "evil"... Shmueli also said that the haredi had...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:24 AM • 5 Comments
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One of the disturbing things to me about the current brouhaha over gay parents is the religious right's elevation of biology over relationships. By this I mean that they act as though being a biological parent is infinitely more important...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 39 Comments
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Yet another example from Malaysia of the dangers of mixing religious law with civil law. Howard Friedman has the details: In a 2-1 decision, Malaysia's Federal Court ruled today that Lina Joy, a Muslim convert to Christianity, must get permission...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 16 Comments
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For those who still think that Clarence Thomas is either A) an embarrassment to the Supreme Court or B) nothing more than a sockpuppet who blindly parrots Scalia's opinions, I think it's worth reading his dissenting opinion in the Raich...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:03 AM • 15 Comments
May 30, 2007
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Sasha Abramsky has written an excellent and thorough refutation of the all-too-casual and glib rhetoric equating Bush with Hitler and modern America with Nazi Germany. I agree with it completely. And before we get into the predictable attempts to dismiss...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:24 AM • 77 Comments
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As things begin to heat up over the lawsuit to stop the highly sectarian Bible curriculum in Odessa, Texas, one courageous teacher in the district is taking a public stand. Her name is Lisa Roth and she is Jewish. She...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:18 AM • 25 Comments
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A correspondent from CBS News made this rather audacious claim to Chris Matthews: Gloria Borger: This new ethics legislation that's been passed by the House, is going to be passed by the Senate. Watch for mass resignations from House members,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:12 AM • 7 Comments
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It is absolutely incredible the lengths to which some religious right folks will go to create the fake appearance of persecution, and no one is more dishonest about it than the Worldnutdaily. They're up in arms about the University of...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:06 AM • 8 Comments
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Or, why conservatives should learn to stop worrying and love gay marriage. Dale Carpenter has a brilliant column about the many ways in which opposition to gay marriage actually undermines marriage in ways that the social conservatives think gay marriage...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:00 AM • 20 Comments
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I just wanted to move this comment up here for everyone to see just how insane some people can be. This was in response to the post about Dr. Laura's apparently whacko son and it appears that he has company...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:03 AM • 24 Comments
May 29, 2007
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The Polish government descends yet further into anti-gay absurdity with an announcement that they are investigating the Teletubbies TV show to make sure it's not warping the minds of kids in to thinking that gays might be human beings: Poland's...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:54 PM • 12 Comments
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Pam Spaulding has the video and transcript of Fred Phelps' absolutely appalling rant against Mary Cheney having a baby. It's an interesting observation on the various levels of bigoted insanity. Phelps makes anti-gay nuts like Paul Cameron look almost sane...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 18 Comments
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An article in Newsweek has more information on that showdown between the top DOJ officials and the White House over what everyone presumes was the NSA wiretapping program. Seems the revolt was quite broad at the DOJ: Appalled by the...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:22 AM • 6 Comments
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The city of Jerusalem has approved the permit for this year's gay pride parade, but that's just the beginning of yet another battle to violate the rights of gays and lesbians there. A group of government ministers in Israel is...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:17 AM • 16 Comments
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We've reached a new low in the battle over the Mt. Soledad cross, a giant cross on public property in a park in San Diego as part of a war memorial. The new rhetorical low is to pretend that those...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:10 AM • 12 Comments
