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brayton_headshot_wre_1443.jpg 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)

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September 30, 2007

Court OKs Strip Searches for Ibuprofen

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In schools, that is. The 9th Circuit Appeals Court has ruled in favor of a school that forced a 13 year old girl to expose herself to school officials because they suspected that she had...advil. Yes, advil (see ruling here)....

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More Junk Science from Judith Reisman

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"Dr" Judith Reisman, the venerable old battleaxe who bravely fights the forces of naughtiness, is back with yet another medically-useless diagnosis of people she's never met. Pornographically Induced Impotence is now a national pandemic, raking in untold billions for pornographers...

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Prizes for Energy Breakthroughs?

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With the exception of those radical environmentalists who argue that society must be radically deconstructed along non-technological lines, like the bioregionalists, everyone in our society should be able to agree on the important role that scientific and technological research must...

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September 29, 2007

Military Demagoguery

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If there is one thing that absolutely makes me nuts, it's the tendency of simpleminded rightwingers to demagogue the issue of "supporting the troops." If you say anything that questions a decision to send troops into any situation, you're not...

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Prosylitizing Sheriff Ordered to Stop

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Howard Friedman spotted this story. A Federal court has ordered Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. to stop bringing in a Christian group to evangelize those who work under him. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: U.S. District Judge Lynn...

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Scientological Supremacy?

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We've all heard about many situations in which employers pressured employees to be Christian, but here's a first: a dentist in Chicago charged with coercing his employees in to Scientology: Apart from being subjected to sexual propositions and touching on...

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Best Wishes to Virginia Postrel

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Virginia Postrel has breast cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. She says the particular form of cancer is aggressive, but her prognosis is still good. Postrel is one of the more consistently surprising and interesting thinkers around and I certainly hope...

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September 28, 2007

Part 5 of Moon Series Posted

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Part 5 of my series on Rev. Moon is posted at the Michigan Messenger. This installment focuses on Moon's activity in black churches....

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Perkins, Carter, Blumenthal: the Debate Continues

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At Talk2Action, where I also posted my last take on the subject and where Max Blumenthal has posted a reply. The discussion continues in the comments on both posts....

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Mr. Brayton Goes to Washington

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It looks like I'm going to be flying to Washington DC for a blogging conference with Americans United for Separation of Church and State on November 11th, staying for a celebration of AU's 60th anniversary on the 12th and coming...

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NY Times on Expelled Movie

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The NY Times has an article about the forthcoming documentary Expelled, which purports to show how the jackbooted thugs of the Darwinian Priesthood horribly mistreat those brave truthtellers of the ID movement. This is a prominent facet of the anti-evolution...

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Dissecting a Claim: Perkins v Blumenthal

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In my last post about the Louisiana Family Forum, I repeated a claim that Max Blumenthal made in a Nation article. The claim was that Tony Perkins, founder of the Louisiana Family Forum and now head of the Family Research...

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Pace Does It Again

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Remember when Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace told Congress that the military should not change don't ask, don't tell because homosexuality is immoral? Well now that he's leaving office, he's done it again: "Are there wonderful...

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Long Article on NCBCPS Curriculum

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The Faces of Faith in America News Initiative, a project of the Carnegie and Knight foundations, has a long and detailed article about Bible courses around the country, especially the NCBCPS curriculum and the controversies surrounding it. The crux of...

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September 27, 2007

Welborn's MySpace Page

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Wanna see the MySpace page of the major who has been harassing Pfc. Jeremy Hall, the atheist soldier in Iraq? Here it is. Suffice to say that after reading it, you won't be at all surprised by the accusations. And...

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Key Provision of Patriot Act Struck Down

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This is a very important ruling. Federal District Judge Ann Aiken struck down a key provision of the Patriot Act in a lawsuit filed by Brandon Mayfield, an attorney from Portland who was arrested and falsely accused of being a...

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