According to Darrell Huff, it’s easy to lie with statistics. But it’s just as easy to lie with any kind of science, for the same reason - there’s a lot of knowledge out there and most people aren’t familiar with the basics. So people can come up with intuitively plausible ideas like homeopathy using some quantum-theoretic means of healing, and many ( Read more... )

This is as much as anyone needs to know on the subject:

I mean, my only problem with creationism is it being discussed as theory instead of as pointless solipsistic wanking.

From Slashdot. I lol’d (literally).