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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck."
Category: Skepticism
You may have heard the recent news about a Belgian man who was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state after an accident, but who now has been miraculously discovered to have actually been conscious for the last 23...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:22 AM • 123 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
This excellent article in the Chicago Tribune documents the abuses of science by quacks. Legitimate researchers identify certain properties of autism — markers for inflammation in the brain, for instance, or correlations with testosterone — and write up papers that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:55 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
It's strange…I was offline all day yesterday. I've been at Skepticon II down here in Springfield, Missouri, and unfortunately, I had no internet access while I was in the meeting, which went on all day Saturday late into the evening,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:34 AM • 71 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...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:44 PM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
John Wesley, the Methodist theologian, also advocated 'natural' cures for illness, so he was kind of a quack. However, this account of Wesley's recommendations for treating the sick has one prescription I really like. No, not the one about holding...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:47 PM • 73 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
Clearly modeling his strategy after the anti-vaccination campaigns, Stephen explains how to cobble up your own homemade controversy on just about any subject. All you have to do is ignore all the evidence and invent a non-existent danger, and people...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:54 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
Today is Carl Sagan Day — I think that means you are officially expected to be filled with awe of the cosmos all day long, while also being thoroughly skeptical of the supernatural. Hang on…I think that means I celebrate...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:33 AM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
This is Ali, a six month old baby in Southern Russia. It's a miracle! Every Monday and Thursday, fresh quotations from the Quran 'magically' appear on his legs, belly, or arms when he's home alone with his mommy and daddy,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:06 AM • 95 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
The authors of Freakonomics have a new book out, called Superfreakonomics. It doesn't look promising: a couple of reports have it promoting climate change denialism, which is unfortunate. There are risks in having skepticism with the status quo (which is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:51 AM • 215 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
Sorry, there's another piece there that really irritated me. Maher reads the data selectively: he quotes the CDC's list of possible contaminants of vaccines, like aluminum, insect repellant, formaldehyde, etc. But that is simple honesty in advertising! Everything you put...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:34 PM • 121 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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