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Over the years, I've developed a rough classification system for creationist screeds. One of the most common is the 'deluded parrot', in which the writer just repeats the same tiresome old canards we've heard a thousand times before: "If man evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?"…
The week's tweets and more: 40 million year old plumage shimmers! Iridescence found in fossil feather: http://bit.ly/3FkVf "Most of you are average" - nice roundup of science-themed t shirts: http://is.gd/2Auwn Homeopaths go utterly apeshit over campaign to have WHO denounce magic pills: http://bit…
I've almost come to the end of the core 8 weeks of my surgery rotation (4 more weeks follow in electives) and am currently working on the trauma service for another couple days before taking exams. I don't have a great deal to say, the hours stay long, the medicine remains interesting etc. I'm…
Now here's a project of which I entirely approve: Its an Encyclopedia of American Loons. It's up to seven as of this writing, including Mike Adams (of course!), who is characterized as "Complete loon, flamingly stupid, extremely paranoid, a zealot and a fraud; his influence is probably limited but…