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The Quixotic Man, on January 21, 2010, at 7:03 am
Yesterday Page brought your attention to this New York Times story about the hardship being put on John Freshwater: an innocent scientist who just wants to have the right to have his bible on his desk and teach creationism. Okay, that’s not completely true. He just wants to teach that kids shouldn’t trust evolution and [...]
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The Quixotic Man, on October 27, 2009, at 7:03 am
I Want You: To join me in poorly educating my civilians
It’s tough sometimes, being an American. Sure, we have a bit more money and a couple more bombs than anyone else in the world, but on some issues, I feel like we’re just that little bit inadequate. Like… evolution. It seems that our little [...]
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The Quixotic Man, on October 1, 2009, at 7:03 am
Simple schematic of a Helium atom with its two electrons. According to the Pew study, only 46% of those surveyed answered correctly that an atom is larger than an electron.
Preamble
Before we officially launched the Gotham Skeptic, we spent about a month testing out articles on each other. During that time, I wrote [...]