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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
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Category: Religion
Operation Save America has begun. Some of the fundagelicals are hoping to get militant, and I don't mean in that same sense that some atheists are called "militant", which generally means "atheists who say something". No, they are organizing and...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:31 AM • 138 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
Bill Maher struck precisely the wrong tone in his recent plea for 'forgiveness' for his anti-vax stand — it wasn't an admission that he had been wrong, it was a rather smarmy, self-righteous claim that he has been the open-minded...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:44 PM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Well. It was a strange event. Kittywhumpus and Greg Laden have good detailed breakdowns of the debate, so you can always read those for the audience perspective. As for me, I've learned that you can never prepare for a debate....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:46 AM • 182 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Our problem is that we men don't stand up when we pee. Obama probably sits down when he should pisseth against the wall. This isn't a joke. It's what this guy seriously believes, and he's very angry about it. Somehow,...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:31 AM • 221 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
That's my recipe for dealing with crackpots; feel free to use it, it's easy. You all may remember Vincent Fleury, the French fellow who ascribes developmental processes to swirls of cellular movement in development, who wrote a peculiar paper in...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:06 PM • 204 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
I'm sorry to have to mention this again, but there's a chance the world will end on Wednesday. The same guy with the website that was designed to make you vomit from your eye sockets, who has been predicting the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:55 AM • 255 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
The concern trolls are very concerned. They are responding to my posting of Sonia/Tanja/Rosa/Whoevera Jensen's crazy email — she's disabled! She's mentally ill! It's cruel to post her wacky screeds publicly where people will point and laugh! You're picking on...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:21 PM • 246 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Some crazy lady in British Columbia named either Sonia or Tanja Jensen has me on a mailing list. I'm in good company; also on the list are the president of my university, Bob Bruininks, as well as Nancy Pelosi, Hillary...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:36 AM • 248 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
This argument is a new one on me. If you can't read it, click on it to see a larger original. I can try to summarize it, though. The middle finger is the longest finger on the human hand, and...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:17 AM • 94 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
You all laughed at this video of Charlene Werner explaining the physics of homeopathy. But did you know that videos like this, where kooks are caught in the act, are endangered? It turns out that kooks don't like it...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:51 AM • 175 Comments • 0 TrackBacks