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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
The case of the journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals is a moderately long and troubling one; before I write anything else about it, I should try to compress what's happened so far. Yo, dudes, it's Elsevier. This journal we've got...
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We've all had our laughs at the expense of Andy Schlafly's Conservapædia project, the attempt to build a wiki-based encyclopædia acceptable to fundagelical wackaloons decent conservative folk. Well, it looks like the time for laughter is over: Conservapædia is now...
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Mourning becomes the reality-based community.
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The Internet is where I go to find people who make me wonder, "How can you do that and not worry you're failing at basic human decency?" Case in point: when skeptical activist Robert Lancaster was unfortunately hospitalized, the registration...
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To a scientist, having an open mind is a virtue. However, scientists still get upset when they find a story in a "science" magazine which crowbars open the reader's mind so far that you can hear the brains sloosh out...
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Why have we not heard about this until now? From Tyndale House, the publisher of the Left Behind series, comes Fossil Hunter (2008), the story of. . . oh, I can't do this justice: Fossil Hunter is an Indiana Jones-style...
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Facepalm time.
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Category: Pseudoscience
Dear Rush Limbaugh. . . .
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