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Rush Limbaugh gives Expelled! thumbs up

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

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The Dawkins-Myers incident: Sometimes it’s necessary to break the frame

I really didn’t want to get involved with the whole “framing” debate again. For whatever reason (and they are reasons that I’ve failed to understand), the very mention of the word seems to set certain members of the ScienceBlogs collective into rabid fits of vicious invective that leave rational discourse behind. And, yes, I know […]

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Too bad I don’t live anywhere near Boston…

…because Boston skeptics get to have all the fun with a meeting of Skeptics in the Pub on Monday, March 24 at The Asgard (great name for a pub!) in Cambridge at 7 PM. Keynote speaker for the night is our very own Mike the Mad Biologist. We’ve done a little blog tag-teaming in the […]

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There, that’s better

Sadly, unlike his namesake, Orac is not immune to human foibles and human vulnerabilities. In particular he’s not immune whatever virus is going around at the moment. The damned thing felled my wife for over a week. I thought that I had avoided it, but apparently not. Now I’m starting to feel the unmistakable signs […]

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Things that make me smile, Saturday edition, part 2: A new skeptical doctor joins the SB collective

I’ve been remiss in not mentioning that one of the newer and better docs dedicated to skepticism and science= and evidence-based medicine has joined the SB collective. I’m talking about PalMD, formerly of the blog White Coat Underground. He’s joined up with the Hoofnagles over at Denialism.com and is already posting away. It’s always good […]