Well, it looks as though I’ve stepped into it yet one more time. Believe it or not, I hadn’t intended to stir up trouble among the ScienceBlogs collective, both English- and German-speaking. Really. Oh, I’ll admit that there are occasionally times when I actually do mean to stir up trouble. One recent example is when […]
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Anti-blasphemy = anti-free speech
Chalk this up under “Yet another example of U.N. incompetence“: UNITED NATIONS – Islamic countries Monday won United Nations backing for an anti-blasphemy measure Canada and other Western critics say risks being used to limit freedom of speech. Combating Defamation of Religions passed 85-50 with 42 abstentions in a key UN General Assembly committee, and […]
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I tell ya, I’m on the light blogging schedule for a mere four days, thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the happy invasion of family on Thursday and Friday, and a significant amount of grant writing I’ve had to deal with on Saturday and Sunday, and somehow I missed not only a study relevant to […]
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Why, Sithmas, of course! Just ask Palpatine if you don’t believe me: Yeah, this beats Squidmas hands down. Also, the Star Wars geek in me can’t help but mention that Emperor Palpatine is more than happy to answer many other of your questions, including “Why didn’t you kill Jar-Jar Binks?“; the sex lives of emperors; […]
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I don’t read ScienceBlogs.de for the simple reason that I don’t understand German beyond a few words and phrases. Consequently, I don’t know what our German counterparts are up to. However, a reader sent me a link that gives me reason to be very concerned about at least one of the blogs in the German […]
