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Thank you, Jenny McCarthy!
‘Unprecedented’ rise in measles in England and Wales.
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No takers so far, and I don’t expect any
$2.3 million bounty offered for “100% chemical-free material”
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This reminds me of dihydrogen monoxide.
Mythmaker
The latest xkcd.
Mixed Nuts
The Limits of Linguistics
“….we are generally powerless to interpret reincarnationspeak and yogababble.”
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Hadrons
“You’ve got these subatomic particles accelerated at great speeds for the sole purpose of being destroyed. No one thinks of the ethical implications of this….There’s a limited supply of hadrons in the universe. Do we just want to go around destroying them? What if we run out? What if the hadrons can feel pain? Will we look back at this hundreds of years from now and regret it? Kinda like we do with the killing of bacteria with antibiotics now.”
From BBspot via Bad Astronomy.
Pseudo-science, censorship, and incompetence
Expelled!. Also see the follow-up.
Via Bad Astronomy.
As my mother used to nag us: Don’t do a half-way job!
Mixed Nuts
Two recent incidents at Midwestern universities, actually quite similar IMHO:
From If you reject a teaching job applicant because he believes a crazy conspiracy theory…:
[….] the University of Wisconsin has not rehired 9/11 conspiracy believer Kevin Barrett to teach a course on the history of Islam. […] if we know a person believes something truly nutty, are we not entitled to use that as evidence of his intelligence, judgment, and trustworthiness?
From Silly creationists, Universities are for scientists:
….Iowa State University denied tenure to astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez. As it happens, Gonzalez is an advocate of Intelligent Design, which has been legally ruled to be not only religion, but actually just warmed-over creationism.
I believe both Universities acted correctly.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 