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pharyngula | December 10, 2006
Look at this...Phil is sneaking around my back, recruiting people at the JREF to vote for him, as if he is the only skeptic in the running. He's also tried to win people over on talk.origins. I'll have you know I've been fighting for the forces of rationality for years now. I've debunked astrology, I've jumped down Deepak Chopra's throat, I've skewered creationist cranks, and yes, I've even done movie reviews. There is also much more sex on a biology blog than you'll ever find on a mere astronomy blog.
Although, I do have to grudgingly confess, Phil's recent post about religious goons…
pharyngula | December 9, 2006
Phil is still playing the speciesist card, and now he wants to invoke the so-called superiority of bony internal skeletons. There's nothing wrong with a good hydrostatic skeleton, you know, it's one of those useful innovations that allows a soft tissue to extend and become rigid. I'm sure Phil's lovers have all wished he had one. (Perhaps that's the source of the telescope fixation over there, a little rigid tube envy).
And look at how far he's willing to go:
That is why I am promoting the "Defense of Vertebrates Act". This legislation, which I will submit to the National Academy of Higher…
mikethemadbiologist | December 9, 2006Here's the picture:
(from here)
That's right: C.G.B Spender. Well, that is, if the loons responding to this post by Orac about 9/11 woo are to be believed. Fucking morons.
clock | December 9, 2006Drop Kick My Big Balls While She's Gettin' Nailed mixed by Jeff Hebert of A Nerd's Country Journal.
pharyngula | December 9, 2006
Now Phil has gone too far. In a Rovian scheme to pander to bigotry, he has confessed to cultivating my love of cephalopods to discredit me, and he has also stated that liking invertebrates is "unhealthy". And now he has called us cephalapodufascist!
This is what he sent me in his sneaky, long-term plan to pander to the anti-cephalopod faction. It's adorable, it's charming, it's sweet…yet Phil Plait considers it "unhealthy". He probably hates Cephalopodmas, too.
Vote for Pharyngula. Unless you hate squid and want to be eaten last.
By the way, you should also vote for Sadly, No for Best…
evolvingthoughts | December 9, 2006A new war on Christmas is being waged... by a pastor. Forget those secular humanists; the real danger to traditional Christmas is the religious. Santa is "a blasphemous stand-in for God who makes liars of parents and causes confusion among children."
Why do they hate Christmas? And, presumably, Democracy... damned terrorists.
evolvingthoughts | December 8, 2006
Those who know me, or try to proselytise me with petitions or for political party support, know that I am a moral vacuum. At least, that's what I say when they try ("Sorry, I'm a moral vacuum". It gets great reactions). I like to talk about facts and practices, but not to prescribe or proscribe. I have my own moral code, but you won't get me trying to convince you of it.
But sometimes moral claims are too strong to ignore. A couple of these popped up lately on the Science Blogs, and I thought I'd shirk my duty by linking to the morally better informed and formed.
One is, of course, the…
oracknows | December 8, 2006Via The Second Sight, I find an example of a tool that, I suspect, many alties will find highly useful: The Woo World Self Treater. It'll allow you to diagnose yourself free from the boot of big pharma and the oppressive evidence-based medicine that close-minded "conventional" doctors like me advocate.
My results are below the fold:
Quantum-consciousness analysis of your auric field shows you are suffering the symptoms of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, which is commonly seen among males born under the sign of Leo. This may also be due to alien implants. Magnet therapy has been shown to be…
pharyngula | December 8, 2006
Phil is pleased that water has been discovered on Mars, and thinks this is a good reason to send spaceships there…and back. As a biologist, I wonder what alien life forms could be flourishing in that damp opportunity, and would urge careful disinfection. Who knows what weird parasitic microorganisms could be lurking there? Do you really want to endorse a rocket jockey when what you really need is someone able to understand and fight the alien threat?
Vote for Pharyngula. Unless you want Martian pod-fungus to eat your brain.
P.S. Also, you need to vote for anyone other than Stop the ACLU in…
pharyngula | December 7, 2006
Really, I wasn't going to make a big deal of this award, but then Phil had to go and mock the noble name of Pharyngula, and make it all a challenge. Now as a matter of honor I have to try and defeat the Bad Astronomy blog.
I have to do this. If you read that post, it is revealed that Phil has posed nude for the SkepDude calendar. This is a troubling precedent, I'm sure you'll all agree that we shouldn't encourage bloggers to let it all hang out in public like that.
Vote for Pharyngula. Unless you want me to pose nekkid.
pharyngula | December 6, 2006Because, honestly, The Atheist Delusion sounds exactly like the usual argument from real theistic apologists.
j7uy5 | December 5, 2006
HT:
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Street Fighter.
pharyngula | December 4, 2006I take my criticisms back. It seems Intelligent Design creationism has made a profound contribution to computer science.
Introduction
Intelligent design sort is a sorting algorithm based on the theory of intelligent design.
Algorithm Description
The probability of the original input list being in the exact order it's in is 1/(n!). There is such a small likelihood of this that it's clearly absurd to say that this happened by chance, so it must have been consciously put in that order by an intelligent Sorter. Therefore it's safe to assume that it's already optimally Sorted in some way that…
pharyngula | December 3, 2006Since Wilkins, Lynch, and Mike are doing this, I must follow (my mom said something about friends and cliffs once…I'm hoping that they don't ever decide to jump off one). The two mad biologists achieve parity!
Your 'Do You Want the Terrorists to Win' Score: 100%
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You are a terrorist-loving, Bush-bashing, "blame America first"-crowd traitor. You are in league with evil-doers who hate our freedoms. By all counts you are a liberal, and as such cleary desire the terrorists to succeed and impose their harsh theocratic restrictions on us all. You are fit to be hung for treason! Luckily…
evolvingthoughts | December 3, 2006I'm a follower, not a leader. And when John Lynch and Mike the Mad Biologist do something, I must too. I am their terrorism-loving lapdog, I am...
Your 'Do You Want the Terrorists to Win' Score: 98%
You are a terrorist-loving, Bush-bashing, "blame America first"-crowd traitor. You are in league with evil-doers who hate our freedoms. By all counts you are a liberal, and as such cleary desire the terrorists to succeed and impose their harsh theocratic restrictions on us all. You are fit to be hung for treason! Luckily George Bush is tapping your internet connection and is now aware of…
mikethemadbiologist | December 3, 2006The best internet quiz, EVAH! My results and the link, below.
Your 'Do You Want the Terrorists to Win' Score: 100%
You are a terrorist-loving, Bush-bashing, "blame America first"-crowd traitor. You are in league with evil-doers who hate our freedoms. By all counts you are a liberal, and as such cleary desire the terrorists to succeed and impose their harsh theocratic restrictions on us all. You are fit to be hung for treason! Luckily George Bush is tapping your internet connection and is now aware of your thought-crime. Have a nice day.... in Guantanamo!Do You Want the Terrorists to…
oracknows | December 3, 2006There's no justice in the world, as the blog Hot Chicks with Douchebags shows.
I know, Kevin Beck mentioned this blog a while back, but I came across it again and it made me laugh yet again. I just couldn't help but link to it.
