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I have just discovered that without her father's consent this sweet, trusting, gullible six-year-old is being sent, for weekly instruction, to a Roman Catholic nun. What chance has she?"
With so many mindbytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.
Richard Dawkins
April 30, 2010
Category: Science
This is the first I've heard of this, but there is a devastating disease called Plum Pox Virus that kills trees bearing stone fruits, like plums and peaches, and the only way to deal with infected plants is to rip...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:37 PM • 75 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Equality
John C. Nienstedt is the Archbishop of the Diocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, which makes him the ranking Catholic god-botherer in the region, I guess. We're supposed to call him "Most Reverend" — priests are really good at attaching...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:29 PM • 258 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods
Argonauta nodosa Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:24 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Administrative
I've so late in tallying up the Molly nominations lately, that I thought for a change I'd get the March Molly award done on time, and a little early even. This one was easy: it was a landslide for Josh,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:52 AM • 77 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2010
Category: Skepticism
Some yogi in India claims that he hasn't eaten, drunk, or used a bathroom in 70 years. Yeah, right. Now the Indian military is studying him because, obviously, soldiers who don't need to be provisioned would be rather useful…which assumes...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:14 PM • 100 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Tim Minchin has a new and utterly delightful little song about the Pope. Warning: it's catchy. You might end up singing it around the house. Oh, and also…it's a teeny bit naughty. Maybe not safe for work, unless you work...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:11 PM • 150 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating science
At last, some research in communicating evolution that I can agree with, because it corresponds to my prior experience and biases! Which is exactly the wrong reason to agree with it, of course, but it's a start, and with...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:02 PM • 74 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
The word is out: on my way to the Gods & Politics conference in Copenhagen, I'm taking a little detour to visit Oslo, as this forum article mentions. It's true! It's true! Tidenes happening før Skepsikonferansen 2010! En ravende, sinna,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:46 PM • 62 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
This story about the desperation of the French priesthood to recruit new victims has some interesting statistics. There are around 24,000 priests in France today, down from 42,000 in 1975. The number of Catholics entering the diocese has declined as...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:43 AM • 64 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I suggested in jest that maybe we should put England's sensible Lord Justice Laws on our Supreme Court, but maybe they still need rationalists over there. The Guardian has been using a stellar pro-science panel (Goldacre and Singh, to name...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:09 AM • 101 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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