The CEI is still at it -- fighting reason
Category: climate
It's important to call out the CEI whenever they engage in such mendacious behavior.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 3:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Island of Doubt
An irregular exploration of the struggle between the power of rational discourse and the scientific method on one hand, and the forces of superstition and dogma on the other.
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James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
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Science as a Candle
in the Dark,
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--- H. L. Mencken
By doubting we come to inquiry; and through inquiry we perceive truth.
--- Peter Abelard
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
-- Richard Dawkins
As for evolution, it happened. Deal with it.
-- Michael Shermer.
March 31, 2008
I am not a number! I am free man!
Category: humor
A little April Foolishness now. Please help me fill in the blanks. Correct entries must come from television or film....
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:56 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2008
Al Gore is part of the problem -- new survey
Category: climate
It cannot be comforting to the researchers in the scientific community that the more trust people have in them as scientists, the less concerned they are about their findings
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:30 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2008
The Expelled! fiasco: What's wrong with telling it like it is?
Category: evolution
All hell is breaking loose as our little corner of blogosphere tries to come to grips with the wisdom of telling it like it is.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:03 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2008
A Skeptic's Theme Song!
Category: humor
Bob Carroll of The Skeptic's Dictionary, has produced a theme song for skeptics. Well, OK. He stole the music from Leonard Cohen. "The Tower of Song" becomes "The Tower of Woo." Actually, I think he's drawing on Bob Dylan at...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2008
Childhood's End: Arthur C. Clarke is dead
Category: Sci-culture
Arthur C. Clarke, proposer of the geosynchronous communications satellite, author of more than 100 books and third member of the ABCs of science fiction, is dead this day at 90. My favorite of his novels was The Fountains of Paradise,...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 6:32 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 17, 2008
What science ain't
Category: evolution
What do you expect when you read of the "four most powerful and profound scientific theories" since the 17th century, but come across no mention of evolution by natural selection?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:59 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 14, 2008
They're either liars or...
Category: climate
It is simply not credible to argue that the CEI team did not know about the discrepancy between their ad's claim and the truth.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2008
Cell phone idiocy
Category: technology
I also know most people, especially younger types, like to believe they are perfectly capable of multi-tasking. These people include some of my best friends and members of my family. I love them, but that's doesn't mean they're right.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:06 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Want to be a Scienceblogs Super Reader?
Category: misc
If you'd like to join a sort of Scienceblogs elite reader club, you've got two days to send me an email. Each blog here can nominate two readers for access to one massive club account on del.icio.us. You'll be asked...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:42 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 10, 2008
We're running out of time
Category: climate
If their calculations are correct we have 10 years to start chopping emissions by a mere 1 percent each year. Any further delay, and we're doomed.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 7:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 9, 2008
Moses was stoned. No, really?
Category: religiosity
Moses didn't actually commune with any god, but was simply high on a local psychotropic plant extract.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 1:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 5, 2008
The difference between philosophy and science
Category: climate
Let's not equate the scientists who have devoted their lives to understanding an incredibly complex and challenging with those who get their news from Rush Limbaugh.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:44 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 4, 2008
Throwing cold water on climate change pseudoskepticism
Category: climate
Further to recent chatter about how silly it is to mistake blasts of cold weather for a reversal of long-term climate change, here's the latest missive from James Hansen:...
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 4:00 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 3, 2008
The climatologist survey
Category: climate
Even those who have made non-CO2 forcings their focus aren't necessarily willing to state that the IPCC overstates the threat posed by climate change.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 3:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 1, 2008
McCain slips into the deep end
Category: medicine
I feel compelled to help spread this a widely as possible, in hopes of doing my bit to inoculate the country against the threat posed by a McCain presidency.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:31 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
