May Der Zirkle be unbroken ...
16% of Indiana Republicans can't be that dumb, can they?Posted on May 10, 2008 3:15 PM • 6 Comments
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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
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Politics:
Another "academic freedom" bill dies on the vine.
Not looking good for the cdesign proponentsists and their attempts to weaken science education by proposing "academic freedom" bills. First Florida. Now Alabama....Posted on May 9, 2008 3:40 PM • 7 Comments
On gas and Clinton
Over at TfK, Josh more-or-less reads my mind about the rank stupidity of McCain and Clinton calling for a suspension of the gas tax: This is stupid, because it won’t actually cut prices (the price of a good like gasoline...Posted on May 6, 2008 1:50 AM • 11 Comments
Whoda thunk it?
"Multiple world champion Oscar De La Hoya registered a unanimous decision victory over fellow American Steve Forbes in a non-title bout on Saturday." Huh?...Posted on May 4, 2008 12:57 AM • 9 Comments
National Mission Accomplished Day
I forgot to mention that yesterday (technically still today here in Arizona) was National Mission Accomplished Day. Nice job, Bushie....Posted on May 2, 2008 1:17 AM • 1 Comments
Atheism in the Army (and the Power of Plexiglass)
I ran across this story covering Jeremy Hall’s case (PZ comments) and just want to quote the following: [Hall’s atheism] eventually came out in Iraq in 2007, when he was in a firefight. Hall was a gunner on a Humvee,...Posted on April 26, 2008 9:02 PM • 1 Comments
"Darwinist" seen at Neo-Nazi conference
According to Expelled, this guy must be some kind of "Darwinist," right? He’s Tony Zirkle and he’s seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in Indiana. Above he is addressing a bunch of like-minded individuals - at a birthday celebration...Posted on April 25, 2008 4:09 PM • 10 Comments
Bush approval reaches a new low.
Bush’s approval rating is now down to 28%, the lowest of his tenure as POTUS, and a drop of 62% from his high in September 2001. As Gallup notes, both Bush Sr and Jr went through 60% drops in their...Posted on April 13, 2008 9:35 PM • 5 Comments
Apparently, reading is no longer fundamental
Just this last week, my daughter had her first AIMS test (Arizona’s standardized test) - an annual week of tests on reading, writing and math. In preparation, all "superfluous" subjects - such as science and social studies - were abandoned...Posted on April 13, 2008 4:37 PM • 2 Comments
The optimistic 4%
Apparently 81% of respondents to a recent NYT/CBS survey feel "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track" for this country - up from 69% last year and 35% in 2003. Only 4% said the country is better...Posted on April 4, 2008 12:15 AM • 5 Comments
Data-free framing courtesy of Nisbet
Matt Nisbet has coughed up yet another post on PZ and framing. It begins: You don’t have to be a social scientist to recognize that the distribution of opinion among people who comment at Scienceblogs is very different from the...Posted on March 29, 2008 8:43 PM • 52 Comments
Sea Cucumber Sex Scandal
[H/T to Crooks and Liars]...Posted on March 22, 2008 8:13 PM • 4 Comments
Japanese "scientific" whaling resumes
A mother Minke whale and her year-old calf are dragged on board a Japanese whaling ship after being harpooned in Antarctic waters. The picture was taken from an Australian customs vessel tracking the whalers to gather evidence for possible...Posted on February 7, 2008 12:24 AM • 41 Comments
Science Debate 2008 news
Exciting news from the Science Debate 2008 camp. Sheril & Chris have just announced that the National Academies are joining the efforts to get a debate on science policy on the cards for the upcoming election. Amazing to think...Posted on February 4, 2008 2:12 PM • 0 Comments
ASU supports ScienceDebate 2008
Just a quick note to say how happy I am that Arizona State University and our president, Michael Crow, has endorsed the ScienceDebate2008 initiative. That is all....Posted on February 1, 2008 12:14 PM • 0 Comments
Guns in schools! Yeah, that will work.
Anyone who knows Arizona politics won’t be surprised by another dumb proposal being put forward by Thayer Verschoor and Karen Johnson. Both are Republicans. Both have problems with evolution - Verschoor turned up at an Answers in Genesis fundraiser a...Posted on January 26, 2008 4:17 AM • 20 Comments
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