I was reading about the Canada lynx on Why Evolution is True and that got me thinking about all the weird pets people have. First up are skunks. It’s unfortunately illegal to keep them as pets in some states (including Maine), but where it is legal, an owner can have their skunk’s scent glands removed [...]
Filed under: Evidence, Evolution, Misc | Tagged: Canada lynx, Raccoons, Red Fox, Silver Fox, Skunks, Squirrels, Weird pets | 1 Comment »
After butchering a previous letter to the editor I wrote, the Kennebec Journal has printed my correction. On July 19, the Kennebec Journal ran a letter with my name as the author. Neither the title nor the edited content reflected what I had originally written. The piece was titled “Irreparable harm to sciences if LePage [...]
Filed under: Creationism, Maine Race for Governor | Tagged: Creationism, Kennebec Journal, letter to the editor, Loon, Paul LePage | Leave a Comment »
If it was up to the woo crowd, I wouldn’t have taken multiple vaccinations over the past several months. Not doing so would in turn prevent my trip to Tanzania. Good thing I’m not hostile towards science.
Filed under: Misc | Tagged: Thought of the day, Vaccines | 1 Comment »
One of the fastest moving stars ever discovered is on its way out of the Milky Way, but Hubble can still see it. Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a rare hypervelocity star that was spat out of the centre of our galaxy and is travelling three times as fast as the Sun. Scientists believe [...]
Filed under: Astronomy/Cosmology/Physics | Tagged: HE 0437-5439, hubble, Milky Way | 14 Comments »
Upon arriving at the beach yesterday, I lathered on the sun screen. Being relatively fair-skinned, I’ve learned my lesson in forgetting or not using enough of the stuff, and I wasn’t about to get all burned up. I don’t like eating lobster; I certainly don’t want to look like one. But that isn’t the only [...]
Filed under: Evolution, Science | Tagged: cancer, Cancer tubes, Color Blindness, mice, Naked mole rats, Photolyase, Tanning, UV | 3 Comments »
No scientist would ever reach the conclusions drawn by any religion if no religion ever existed.
Filed under: Misc | Tagged: Thought of the day | 22 Comments »
When asked if he believed in creationism and if it ought to be taught in schools, Paul LePage answered this. I would say intelligence, uh, the more education you have the more knowledge you have the better person you are and I believe yes and yes. It’s a ramble, but a ramble that ends with [...]
Filed under: Creationism, Maine Race for Governor | Tagged: Arden Manning, Charlie Webster, Creationism, Liar, Paul LePage | Leave a Comment »
I’ve told Christopher Maloney (do I still need to provide background links on who he is at this point?) that he cannot make his destroyed web presence any better; he can only not make it worse. But as some readers may recall, he put an absurd amount of effort into creating a site about his [...]
Filed under: Pure bullshit | Tagged: British Chiropractic Association, Christopher Maloney, Naturopathy, Quack quack quack, Steven Novella | 7 Comments »
It is wildly, spectacularly, crushingly and crashingly unacceptable that naturopaths think they know a damn thing about treating cancer. The mind boggles that this “specialty” has its own board certification. How long before naturopathic oncologists push for special privileges in the states that license naturopaths? It’s not even beyond my imagination to visualize them applying [...]
Filed under: Pure bullshit | Tagged: Naturopaths, Oncology, Orac, Quack quack quack, Respectful Insolence | Leave a Comment »
