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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
September 30, 2007
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)....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:29 AM • 99 Comments •
"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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:18 AM • 30 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:10 AM • 11 Comments •
September 29, 2007
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:35 AM • 22 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:20 AM • 9 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:13 AM • 15 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:05 AM • 2 Comments •
September 28, 2007
Part 5 of my series on Rev. Moon is posted at the Michigan Messenger. This installment focuses on Moon's activity in black churches....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 3:40 PM • 3 Comments •
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....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 1:30 PM • 6 Comments •
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...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 18 Comments •
