The Smug Baldy Speaks

Today’s Seed Daily Zeitgeist had a really cool link to a portion of a talk given by Ken Miller about a prediction made by evolution that, if wrong, could allow for the rejection of the entire theory.

Guess we’re not rejecting evolution today. Ain’t science grand?

In the good old days, the blind led the blind, and even so, snake-oil salesmen were relatively easy to spot. Now the snake-oil is well marketed by cool-looking websites like Overwhelming Evidence, where kids are encouraged to, “communicate their views on intelligent design and evolution”.
Indeed, OE puts the power in student’s […]

For better than 30 years, the Republican party has consistently misused and abused science and scientific knowledge for the purpose of advancing the social agenda of party conservatives, and promoting the economic agenda of its large corporate supporters. That’s not to say that Democrats have not also abused science as well, but the Republicans […]

Many news sources are reporting that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) latest report makes a strong statement that human activity is “very likely” responsible for global warming. For example, the BBC reported today that:
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, said: “It is extremely encouraging in that the science has moved on from […]

This letter appeared in today’s Mobile Press-Register, and it raises a few questions about the science and politics behind the so-called global warming “debate”. I’ll present it in it’s entirety, and will then address some specific issues.

Global warming claim a ‘hoodwink’
Nancy Pelosi, in addition to being speaker of the House, has apparently become a […]

On another blog, someone asked this about the Alabama school board :
Again, I ask, when did it get to be a good and acceptable thing in this country to be so fucking stupid?
My response:
You know, to me it’s tempting to fall into the trap of calling evolution deniers stupid. But it’ a trap, after […]