Enjoy your weekend

By hrynyshyn on May 10, 2007.

I'm off on a family extended weekend, and may not have the opportunity to lambaste the forces of darkness until next week. Meanwhile, I'll point you in the direction of two precious posts elsewhere in the blogosphere. First, there's "Fun with correlations" at Real Climate, in which Gavin pokes fun at climate change denialists who have a rather underdeveloped grasp of statistics and math. Second, and still on the denial front, our latest addition to ScienceBlogs, Denialism Blog takes on an op-ed essay in (where else?) the Wall Street Journal, in which Al Gore gets blamed for 9/11. I kid you not.

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