Urban Dictionary’s Word of the Day
Definition:
The manipulation of scientific data to provide evidence for intelligence design
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Tag Archives: skepticism
Testing String Theory
Liberals Proven More Intelligent Than Conservatives … Or Not
Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives: Liberals think they’re more intelligent than conservatives because they are reported on a study that claims precisely this.
Shawn Smith, the “Iron Shrink”, responded with Are Liberals More Intelligent than Conservatives? Another Broken Study Says It Is So
Skepchick Stacey summarized Smith’s arguments, concluding:
The point isn’t that liberals aren’t more intelligent than conservatives – maybe they are, maybe they aren’t – but this study hasn’t proven it. The point is that if the evidence is bad, I have to ignore it – even when it tells me what I want to hear.
Why have UFOs changed speed over the years?
Without vaccines ….
Good Advice
At Calamities of Nature, via Bad Astronomy
Vaccines and Autism: The Comic Book
Rejecting Reality
From climate change to vaccines, evolution to flu, denialists are on the march. Why are so many people refusing to accept what the evidence is telling them?
In this special feature we look at the phenomenon in depth. What is denial? What attracts people to it? How does it start, and how does it spread? And finally, how should we respond to it?
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From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 