Romney Wants More Cold Fusion Research | Mike the Mad BiologistRomney actually said this. Out loud. To another person:
I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of new sources of energy. I believe in laboratories, looking at ways to conduct electricity with - with cold fusion, if we can come up with ( Read more... )

Paul Wallace: Intelligent Design Is Dead: A Christian Perspective:For a person of faith, ID is not just an unnecessary choice; it is a harmful one. It reduces God to a kind of holy tinkerer. It locates the divine in places of ignorance and obscurity. And this gives it a defensive and fearful spirit that is out of place in Christian faith and ( Read more... )

Here he is, this supposedly "principled" person, playing the "just a theory" card for the sake of the idiots that will decide the Republican primaries.  Apparently, trust that scientists who work with this stuff on a daily basis to actually solve problems and really know what their doing, is simply illegal in the Republican Party these days.

The bride of the son of the revenge of cell phones and cancer rises from the grave...again : Respectful Insolence:Basically, the only suggestive studies all come from the same group in Sweden, which is always a red flag to me (that the studies all come from one group, not that they come from Sweden, I hasten to add). As I said before, whenever one ( Read more... )

but it is hilarious...

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WTF, CNN? : Dispatches from the Culture Wars:There was a massive fish kill in Arkansas recently. Then there was a bizarre event where more than a thousand blackbirds fell from the sky in that same state. So who does CNN bring on to discuss this, wildlife biologists? Scientists with an expertise in migration patterns or life cycles of fish and birds ( Read more... )

Science is not dead : Pharyngula:But that's where the psychological dimension comes into play. Look at the loaded language in the article: scientists are "disturbed," "depressed," and "troubled." The issues are presented as a crisis for all of science; the titles (which I hope were picked by an editor, not Lehrer) emphasize that science isn't ( Read more... )

Corpse Of Astronomer Tycho Brahe Exhumed | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | American Voices:"The guy had a supposedly clairvoyant court-jester dwarf who sat under the table during dinner and a tame elk that would drink beer with you. Who gives a shit how he died? Let's celebrate his life!"

I had a hard drive (Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500) that was shorting out - I plug it into my netbook and the whole thing (netbook itself) power-crashes to nothing.  I plug it into my work mac and it pops up a dialog that it was drawing too much power.  I was worried the whole enclosure was dead (and the youtube video for opening the damn thing to pull ( Read more... )

New Species Discovered on Environmentally Damaged Easter Island | Insect, Indigenous Ecosystem & Extinction | LiveScience:Almost all of the organisms currently living on Easter Island are invasive species that have been introduced, Wynne said.
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