Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Another Inappropriate Name

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What do you think when you hear the name "World of Science Canada"? Probably something to do with science, right? Wrong. It...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

They Offer Nothing But Lies, 5

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The falsehoods are coming fast and furious at the creationist site, Uncommon Descent. Somebody (other than me) should try to catalogue th...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Shoddy Journalism & Tinpot Moderators at NPR

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I love NPR, and listen and donate to it frequently. But the last 24 hours have soured me a bit, at least on some NPR employees. Take a ...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Math Challenge #1

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Here's the first of some math challenges, drawn from my notebooks. This is one from around 1977. Observe that sin(333) + sin(355) ...
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

When Veritas Doesn't Mean Truth

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Did you ever notice that many irrationalist groups choose descriptive names that are just the opposite of their actual goals? For example...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

Moose in the Pool

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From reader D. S. comes this picture of a moose in a swimming pool. Happens every summer in Canada if you don't put out moose repel...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Interview with Edward Caudill

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Here's a great NPR interview with Edward Caudill, author of the new book, Intelligently Designed: How Creationists Built the Campaign...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014

The Intellectual Fraud of Intelligent Design

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Back in 2001, Wesley Elsberry and I began working on a long paper in which we did what intelligent design advocates demanded: take their...
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Friday, January 03, 2014

Ask The Editor: When Should I Include Page Numbers in a Reference?

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Recently I got the following query from an author of a paper in a journal I edit: When should I include page numbers when citing a speci...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

David Gelernter, Hypocrite

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The whiny and porcine David Gelernter is back again, with an astonishingly un-self-aware screed entitled "The Closing of the Scientif...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Another Crazy Journal Solicitation

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Dear Shallit, Jeffrey, With great sincerity, we are writing to you today. We happened to have the opportunity to read your paper titl...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Denial Has Many Forms

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Recently I spent about a week in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. I ate a lot of good food (I can recommend Parker's Barbecue...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Virginia Heffernan Exemplifies What is Wrong With Journalism

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Both my parents were journalists. In fact, in 1939, my mother was the first woman reporter at the Florence Evening Star in South Carolin...
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Friday, December 27, 2013

More Philosophical Silliness

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While reading this moral argument against Darwinism by Doug Groothuis, keep in mind that the author reminds us, whenever possible, that h...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The Southern Confederacy Arithmetic

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Here is an interesting piece of mathematical Americana: The Southern Confederacy Arithmetic by the Reverend Charles E. Leverett, publis...
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Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Value of Personal Knowledge - The Answer

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Here's the answer to yesterday's quiz. 1910 was a different world.
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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Homeopathy Kills

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I have a lot of sympathy for Tamara Lovett, whose child Ryan recently died , apparently because she tried to treat his serious illness wit...
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The Value of Personal Knowledge

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This is part of an advertisement from a magazine in 1910. Can you guess what the key to "achievement of the highest excellence is...
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Sunday, December 01, 2013

Creepy Deal Creating Public Religious School Finally Ends

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I only live 20 minutes away from this school , but I never knew about it. Believe it or not, there's a Canadian public school that ...
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Why Are There so Few Famous Dutch Composers?

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I know little about classical music, but I have no problem listing, off the top of my head, German composers (Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Br...
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