Now on ScienceBlogs: Live Organ Transplants
A blag for math, physics and the New Enlightenment
Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
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
Category: Pseudoscience
Steve Fuller, pontificator on matters sociological, has joined the crew of the antiscience blog Uncommon Descent. I think I can already see a few steps in his plan: 1. Insist on calling modern biology "Darwinism", despite perennially repeated explanations that...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 3:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wondering about those "strengths and weaknesses" in evolution which well-meaning concerned citizens are demanding be taught? We know about the strengths: nothing in biology makes the damndest bit of sense without evolution, and if you neglect its effects, people die....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 11:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
![[sex and science]](http://www.sunclipse.org/downloads/sexandscience3.png)
