Respectful Insolence
Archives for August 17, 2011
Better late than never: The Dunning-Kruger effect meets an incompetent anti-vaccine “analysis”
Posted by Orac on August 17, 2011
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It never ceases to amaze me just how ignorant of very basic principles of science anti-vaccine activists often are. I mean, seriously. Every time they try to post something, whether they know it or not, they end up making themselves look so very, very stupid–or at least ignorant. The Dunning-Kruger effect takes over, and people…
Sugarland: Saved by prayer?
Posted by Orac on August 17, 2011 One thing that’s bothered me about religion even before I became the lapsed Catholic heathen that I am, is how God always gets the credit for good things but never the bad. A perfect example is related to the collapse of the stage in a storm at the Indiana State Fair that killed five people…