Boobquake: a slightly silly test of a ridiculous scientific hypothesis
Category: ranting
Do immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes? Of course not.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 6:07 AM • 18 Comments •
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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Volcano monitoring good: Republican antiscientism getting tedious
Category: environment
The geoblogosphere has rightly been up in arms today about the idiotic comments of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who ended his list of examples of what he viewed as wasteful spending in the US stimulus bill by decrying the $140...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:55 PM • 14 Comments •
Expanding Earth "Philosophy": Fail
Category: antiscience
Or should that be FAIL?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:15 PM • 19 Comments •
Supercontinent cycles 3, Expanding Earth 0
Category: tectonics
I have one word for expanding-earthers: Avalonia.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:05 AM • 60 Comments •
It's Earth's Official Birthday!
Category: antiscience
I say official, because, just like the Queen's, the date does not actually mean much from a natal perspective. Nonetheless, the night preceding, or the morning of, October 23rd, 4004 BC is the date that Archbishop Ussher, after a bit...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:31 AM • 3 Comments •
The Earth is flat, you fools!
Category: antiscience
no, really.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:36 AM • 12 Comments •
Ye gods...
Category: antiscience
There's geovandalism - and then there's sheer f***ing insanity. Thousands of pre-dinosaur fossils are scattered in the rocks of the Guryul ravine, rated by geologists as the world's premier site for the study of species from the Permian period (299-251...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:33 PM • 8 Comments •
Creation geologists: going forward to the past
Category: antiscience
This NY Times account of the "First Conference in Creation Geology" should ring a few bells, because I blogged about it way back at the beginning of September. Take that, mainstream media. As I said at the time, the idea...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:08 AM • 10 Comments •
Is 'I don't have an opinion on AGW' a valid scientific position?
Category: antiscience
In amongst the sound and fury which accompanied last week's fight to the death between Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy and Steve McIntyre's Climate Audit in the 2007 Weblog Awards (which was eventually declared a draw), I noticed an interesting attitude...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:05 PM • 4 Comments •
South African creationists: out, proud and part of the teaching staff
Category: antiscience
A few weeks ago, I was wondering about the attitudes to the teaching of evolution here in South Africa - it's now in the curriculum, but in a form which sounds disturbingly familiar to those of us who have encountered...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:40 AM • 7 Comments •
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