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A question for Ben Stein: Why are you singling out Darwin and ignoring the true inspirations for the Holocaust, Pasteur and Koch?

Nasal drone Ben Stein, as you would be hard-pressed not to know if you are a regular reader of ScienceBlogs, is hosting what looks to be a truly execrable crap-fest called Expelled!: No Intelligence Allowed. The movie basically consists of two themes: (1) Whining about “intellectual oppression” by those evil “Darwinists” directed against any valiant […]

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Things that make me smile even in my disease-ridden state: The 83rd Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle

I have to hand it to Mike, the host of this week’s Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle. He’s decided to do something that I never would have thought possible: He’s gotten Ben Stein to introduce the entries to this week’s festival of skeptical thinking–which is why you’re all “expelled”! (I wonder what Matt would think […]

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Things that make me smile even in my disease-ridden state

A “magician” trying and failing to kill a skeptic with black magic. It must have been hilarious to watch, especially if one speaks the language. Maybe they’ll find a way to show it on American TV. Maybe I’ll search YouTube when I feel better.

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A science section for the Huffington Post? More like a pseudoscience section!

Sadly, the death crud continues apace, although at a low enough level that I feel I can eke out a brief post, mainly because it relates to what I’ve been saying all along about a group blog that I tend to dislike. Both Shifting Baselines and DrugMonkey have pointed out that Huffington Post blogger David […]

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Rush Limbaugh gives Expelled! thumbs up

Why am I not surprised? The stupid, it does so burn.