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Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.
George Carlin
March 31, 2006
Here's an entirely hypothetical scenario. You're in a room with two exits, marked Door A and Door B. By each is a guardian, Guardian A and Guardian B. You need to go through one of the doors. Door A is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:18 PM • 167 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
The best analysis of American Heart Journal prayer study that I've seen yet is over at Rhosgobel. It uses solid methodology, and its results are clear: prayer didn't help, and might even have hurt. I've read the paper. It was...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:30 AM • 70 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
Octopus vulgaris Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:01 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Hmmm. That creationist who emailed me a question the other day has sent me another. It's like feeding raccoons—pretty soon they get the idea they should hang out in swarms around your house, they're digging in the trash, and they're...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:51 AM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2006
Category: Carnivals
Here are a few recent carnivals to peruse… 31st Skeptics' Circle 20th I & the Bird 7th Circus of the Spineless …and otherwise, chat away about whatever....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:59 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
What's gotten into the Huffington post? There's a flood of entries making fun of Christian self-pity. Two possible interpretations: liberals are all god-hating elitists, or fundamentalist fanatics have made easy targets of themselves lately. I'll let you guess which...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:06 PM • 56 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Jonathan Witt of the Discovery Institute has lost it. The string of defeats for the cause of Intelligent Design creationism has had its toll, first Dover and now the Ohio ID lesson plan, and the poor man is clearly...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:04 PM • 160 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
It's a universal phenomenon: squid love....
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Category: Local
Our speaker at Tuesday's Café Scientifique, Nic McPhee, has a blog, and gives the speaker's side of the event. He's exactly right that our big problem out here is improving community involvement, and getting some interaction with the townie...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:46 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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