Thought of the day

What teachers make

Arbitrary number celebration!

For the Sake of Science has reached 100,000 hits. Yay several zeros! Here’s the proof. Of course, a creationist would point out that I never actually saw “100,000″, so there’s no way I can say I ever hit that number. I mean, maybe the stat tracker had an error, right? Really, this whole post is [...]

Deuteronomy is just weird

Whenever I want to delve into the world of the bizarre I read one of three things: what Scientologists actually believe, what Mormons actually believe, or the bat shit crazy stuff that is written in Deuteronomy (the whole thing is weird, but chapter 22 has always been a favorite of mine for its especial craziness). [...]

Those hateful atheists

The Obama administration invited the Secular Coalition for America to the White House for a meeting on national policy. President Barack Obama was not scheduled to make an appearance at the meeting, nor were any policy changes to be announced, McClatchy news service reported. But that didn’t stop a number of religious conservative groups from [...]

Circumcision

Any time male circumcision is discussed, people can usually be described in one of three ways: 1) those who have had it done and thus favor it. 2) those who have not had it done and thus do not favor it. 3) Women. This third category doesn’t have any significant, inherent bias that can be [...]

Yet another Symphony of Science

This one includes some familiar and some new ‘singers’ (including someone without a penis for the first time in the series): Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Myers. (Whoops. As a commenter pointed out, Jane Goodall [...]

Thought of the day

A characteristic of the Republican party is a hostility towards science.

Just like a fanatic

Jesus and Mo.

Dokter Kwak

I’m not sure what the subtitle says, but I think the rest of this image breaks the language barrier. (I lied. The subtitle, through the limitations of Google translator, says something about there being a sucker born every minute. It also says “bastard” for some reason.) Update: I got the clear translation (and astoundingly quickly). [...]

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