Having “Faith” In Science

The topic of “faith” in regards to (particularly atheists’) “devotion” to the scientific method (and the institution of science generally) seems to be recurring at more regular intervals of late…
It was raised on several occasions in last weeks’ HIV/AIDS posts here and here, and this article at Wired (Artist Builds Temple of Science) makes the [...]

Report: 60 Million People You’d Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy

(reposted from: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_60_million_people_youd?utm_source=onion_rss_daily)
BOSTON—According to an eye-opening report released Tuesday, 60 million people whom you would never talk to, would never be in a position to talk to, and wouldn’t even be able to talk to if you tried will be voting for the other candidate in this year’s presidential election, and there is nothing you can [...]

Spinning Christ

I hope that even Christians can see this video as the wonderful political satire that it is…

Sunday Funny #11: Hamas TV… for Kids!

Common Sense Science

You know what you really want in good science, you want it to stop getting complex as soon as it begins to be confusing to any typically insightful, average human being with a moderate education and intellect… If science says something that appears contrary to experience… oh… I don’t know, something like: “The sun does not [...]

D’Singenuous D’Souza

I have to admit I only learned about George Obama — Barrack Obama’s half-brother currently living in Nairobi, Kenya under, it seems, rather poor conditions — from Dinesh D’Souza’s blog.  This CNN clip will give you some background.
Apparently, the situation has left D’Souza aghast:
Here is a guy living in Third World destitution and his half-brother [...]

Oh Those Cute, Misinformed Fox Viewers

This graph from ars technica demonstrates the warping power of Fox “News” on… er… reality:
This sort of misinformation isn’t hypothetical; in 2003 a study found that viewers of Fox News were significantly more misinformed about the Iraq war, with far greater percentages of viewers erroneously believing that Iraq possessed WMDs or that there was a credible link between the [...]

The Dangers of Underage Religioning

What is worrying to me is that this sort of abuse (see below) is not only physical, but emotional and mental… and it is thosee latter types of abuse that are so much more difficult to detect…
Reposted from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080925/od_nm/us_ceremonyodd_1)
Muslim sentenced for religious ceremony “cruelty”
Thu Sep 25, 12:55 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) – A Muslim, convicted of child [...]