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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
[George Bernard Shaw]
Category: Skepticism
There's a reason I promote atheism and skepticism coupled with feminism, and it's not because I'm trying to foist a feminist ideology on skepticism. It's because skepticism drives me to consider discrimination and injustice as wrong, not just in an...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:46 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
Poor Andy. Once upon a time, he had the power to kill children just by doing some very bad science and writing a few very bad papers, and now he's reduced to living in Texas and being supported by...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:45 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
As I was going through my usual morning roster of webcomics, I discovered that Sci-ence referenced an earlier one I missed — the Red Flags of Quackery. There are certain tell-tale signs that you're dealing with woo…like the abuse of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:19 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History
The infamous Kensington Runestone is kept in a museum just a few miles up the road from me. It's a carved rock that was dug up on a farm in the 19th century by a Swedish farmer, and purports to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:34 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
Aww, the students of Campus Atheists, Skeptics, and Humanists have warmed the frigid, friable cockles of my black heart. They're having a protest of homeopathy on the Twin Cities campus this Friday! They're hosting a lecture debunking that nonsense,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
Tonight, at 8pm ET, the cast of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe will be bracing themselves with caffeine for their overwhelming plan to saturate the world with a non-stop 24 hour live program. I think it's a kind of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:12 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
Usually, Oz just dispenses pointless pap and feel-good noise, but now he's antagonized the agriculture lobby. On a recent show, he claimed that apple juice was loaded with deadly arsenic — a claim he supported by running quick&dirty chemical...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:36 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
There was another Republican debate (I skipped it; there are limits to the horrors I can endure), and apparently, many people think Michele Bachmann trumped Rick Perry by jumping on his 'liberal' endorsement of using the HPV vaccine to prevent...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:28 AM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
My wife and I have three kids, and while that pregnancy and childbirth thing is way, way back in the past, we did have some strong opinions after our experience. Midwives were wonderful, we had only the best and...
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Category: Skepticism
Jobs is stepping down from his leadership role at Apple, as has been all over the news for the last several days, and I had to say that he's someone I've really admired. Not just as a fully committed...
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