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Many of us will sympathize
Posted by PZ Myers on May 28, 2011 Join me, fellow nerds, in nodding in agreement with this comic. From the mouseover text: “Also, all financial analysis. And, more directly, D&D.” True again.
The divine right of penis
Posted by PZ Myers on May 27, 2011 I thought this was pretty funny. But then I realized that this was the answer to the whole problem of the political assault on women by Republicans. If they don’t give a damn about women’s rights in the first place, we just have to reframe the whole question: Rick Perry and the whole lot of…
It’s so unfair
Posted by PZ Myers on May 3, 2011 They never seem to understand why priests get singled out. If I claimed to have special privileges and attention from a super-being, shouldn’t I also accept some greater responsibilities? Unless I were just lying about being best friends with Superman, that is.
Creationism evolves!
Posted by PZ Myers on April 27, 2011 The existence of Ken Ham proves that creationism changes, therefore proving that it is not absolute, inerrant truth as he claims, therefore Ken Ham disproves creationism. QED. We can all go home now. By the way, that’s not a bad diagram for illustrating the relationships of the various versions of creationism, except that the pedigree…
It’s a little late, I know
Posted by PZ Myers on April 25, 2011 But how can I resist this telling of the True Story of Easter? Really, though, it’s no sillier than the standard story we get told.
Next time I teach genetics, I know what my students will be getting
Posted by PZ Myers on April 6, 2011 This cartoon. Why? Because the first thing I do in the lab is hammer them on basic statistics, show them how to calculate p values, and struggle to keep them from over-interpreting their results.
How would you do?
Posted by PZ Myers on March 11, 2011 Check out this hypothetic version of a science test for Christians. I thought it was really easy, but apparently, I got the answers all wrong.
It’s an honor to be in the chorus
Posted by PZ Myers on March 10, 2011 I also like the theme of this song from George Hrab.
Soon to appear on a thousand herpetologist’s doors
Posted by PZ Myers on March 2, 2011 xkcd digs into cladistics. Unfortunately, his cladogram is wrong. Mammals should also be a subset of the reptiles, so the herpetologists should be demanding that all other amniotes be absorbed into their more inclusive field of tetrapod biology. At least, until the ichthyologists show up and point out that we’re all just weird dry land-walking…