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I was so wrong. I’ve pierced the veil, seen the devil with his shorts down and boy are his balls red. Of course it’s real, I should have always known! I just needed to connect the dots… You don’t understand. Consider me Virgil in your tour of the modern hell. The penny. It was always about [...] A quick note before I start this one. I’d like to say thanks to Scott, Benny, Michael, and Jareth for letting me babble on about this one before and after the Darwin Day lecture. All of your comments helped me solidify my thoughts on a few of these issues. And Benny? You were right about [...] This week our nation saw the 46th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy – one of our most beloved presidents. After Kennedy died, the conspiracies leaped out of the woodwork. From magic bullets to grassy knolls, the nation was obsessed with how this great man could have been taken down by a single [...] A new epidemic is creeping across parts of the US. It primarily affects infants and children of higher socio-economic status, and it has the potential to cause horrible illness and death. It has already begun to cause outbreaks in scattered communities throughout the country. If it is not contained quickly, more carnage will result. The [...] The anti-vaccination quacks at Age of Autism (AoA) decided that instead of addressing individual refutations from the bloggers coming out of the incredibly successful Scienceblogs, that they’d just launch one big ad hominem attack on the entire site. As always, don’t expect them to include any actual science in their rants. They don’t understand it [...] I’ve recently begun a new job in the financial district. It’s at some coffee shop that doesn’t pay me enough, and it’s a really long trip to and from my apartment, but you know, it’s a job, it’s a bad economy, I take what I can get. One of the nice things about the job [...] In his 1637 paper, “Discourse on Method”, Réne Descartes wrote “Je pense donc je suis.” In 1644, he would translate that phrase into Latin for his famous Principles of Philosophy, writing it as “Cogito ergo sum.” “I am thinking, therefore I exist.” When I was in high school, I became a big fan of Descartes. [...] Last week, I happened upon the 2002 video clip of Buzz Aldrin punching a moon-landing conspiracy theorist in the face–a joyous artifact that had never before come to my attention. The punchee was filmmaker Bart Sibrel, who confronted Aldrin (then 72) and his stepdaughter outside a Beverly Hills hotel, screaming ”You’re the one who said you walked on the [...] |
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