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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.
Category: Carnivalia
Last night's evening of song and satire with George Hrab was a rousing success. Video was recorded, and should be available through the Intertubes ere long. Also of note: the 124th Skeptics' Circle has been online for a while now,...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 2:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
I snared two copies of Ray "I like the feel of a good banana in my hand" Comfort's idiotically amended edition of The Origin of Species. Hearing that his minions were giving them out a day early, I swung by...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:59 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bad Math
Now, this is entertainment! Creationist pseudo-mathematician Bill Dembski, unable to respond cogently to a critique of his "work", threatens to sue the critic for copyright infringement. (I guess he was just upset that his information was conserved, ha ha.) You...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:09 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pseudoscience
What do we call the phenomenon that "every creationist movie is obligated to lie to some scientist somewhere to get their words on tape"?
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:21 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bibliophilia
From the man who did not endorse Stuart Pivar. It seems to be characteristic of the impact of scientific discovery on the literary world and on popular culture that certain items of vocabulary, interpreted vaguely or incorrectly, are often the...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 5:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
Brazen stupidity has been given a national soapbox.
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:09 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Astronomy
Spotted on the BBC website, under the headline "The truth about Roswell?" There is a lunar quality to the landscape of New Mexico which seems somehow appropriate for a state which is our portal to the heavens. It is here...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 6:25 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Open Access
It all began with the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine. Then, the story continued with six more Elsevier "journals" turning out to be advertisements for corporate sponsors. Now, amid a flurry of buck-passing and corporate temporizing, the total...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:37 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pseudoscience
My SciBling PalMD has discovered a form of woo whose name, at least, was new to me: "Emotional Freedom Techniques". Why does "EFT" work? Its promoters will be happy to tell you: EFT is a procedure that borrows from the...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 2:04 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
It's a beautiful 275 K in Boston today. I've got Warren Ellis's 4am podcast playing on the stereo. This would be shaping up to be a good day indeed, if NPR hadn't stomped on it by wasting airtime on Michael...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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