Intelligent Design?...
Or drugs?(long video clip)It's rumored that one of my professors from undergrad figures prominently in this, er... educational film that shows that learning molecular biology can be fun! Without being...
View ArticleWhy are Climate Scientists Soooo Clueless?
While conducting a reconnaissance mission in The Republican War on Science, I came across this diary at Redstate.com, a Conservative Republican group blog. It’s basically a DailyKos.com for...
View Article"Skepticism" Run Amok, an Appropriate Level of Skepticism in Evaluating...
(This is a response from the virologist/epidemiologist who contributed this article.)Thanks to both readers that have made it so far. First: Michael is right. You can feel the rage dripping from his...
View ArticleFigures
These Figures are intended to accompany this post. (A blogger bug prevented their posting contiguous with the text.)Figure 1.Fig. 1. (a) Quarterly mortality rates and percentage of total patient-days...
View ArticleThe 40th Edition of the Skeptic's Circle
is up at Daylight Atheism.Some great selections:The 2% Company on the absurdity that is homeopathy.Oracs Friday dose of Woo: Mere Regularity is Not Enough.And Eor's got a live wire in Giant UFO Built...
View ArticleThese Are a Few of My Favorite Things
(Click for music) Raindrops in toilets and hemp skirts on hippiesBright solar panels and shareholders’ yippeesRecycled newspapers tied up with stringsThese are a few of my favorite thingsRenewable...
View ArticleThey Shall Take Up Serpents
"And these signs shall follow them that believe;In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not...
View ArticleA Review of Ramesh Ponnuru's Party of Death
The Democrats the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life (After President Bush’s veto of the Stem Cell Research bill I found myself wondering: What the heck are these people thinking?...
View ArticleThe Party of Sperm Worshippers
The Party of Sperm Worshippers!THE REPUBLICANS, THE TWO-BIT WHORES AT THE CORNER, ANN COULTER,AND THE DISREGARD FOR SAFE SEX****COVER ILLUSTRATION REDACTED DUE TO BLOGGER’S RESTRICTIONS ON POSTING...
View ArticleLast "Rational" Reason for Opposing Embryonic Stem Cell Research is Gone
Anti-science opponents persist in objecting to research.The last possible "rational" reason for opposing the funding of embryonic stem cell research has been removed. Newsweek reports that Advanced...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Jesus
National Council of Churches comes under fire from anti-Christian bigots.Recently the 45 million person National Council of Churches has come under fire from a group called “Concerned Women for...
View ArticleCasey Luskin Advances Agenda of Ignorance by Misappropriating Scientific Terms
Casey Luskin, of the contemptibly dishonest Discovery Institute, is bashing Jerry Coyne for saying:“After lecturing this spring to the Alaska Bar Association on the debate over intelligent design and...
View ArticleIs Dean Esmay Dishonest? or Just Ignorant?
Here he is repeating a lie told by Hank Barnes:Lancet Studyby DeanThe Lancet just published a massive study of over 20,000 AIDS patients and determined that anti-retroviral drugs do not increase the...
View ArticleAn Urgent Message to Jesus' General
Dear General,I was overjoyed to learn that you share my love and respect for spermatozoan Americans!However, I must take issue with your plan to institute a blastocyst-American draft. As you know, both...
View ArticleI'm sorry Dean, was that a yes
I'm sorry Dean, was that a yes to both questions?Dean Esmay asks how many Nobel Prize winners and National Academy members we have here at Moment of Science. Well let me see here...besides myself,and...
View ArticleGot Cicada Killers? Science in the backyard.
While digging up the weed bed in my backyard, that in previous years has been a vegetable garden, I happened to unearth a large fresh cicada with no earth on it nor any sign of dehydration.Though the...
View ArticleDeep Space Climate Observatory Update
Seed magazine provides an update on the status of the Deep Space Climate Observatory, a satellite designed to precisely measure the earth's albedo for use in monitoring and making predictions about...
View ArticleWe Must be Doing Something Right!!
Take a look at this! We are now listed on New AIDS Review’s list of “Sites/Pages (Misleading)”We share this illustrious honor with a number of crackpot sites I’ve never heard of:AetiologyNIH Division...
View Article"...Being a Christian is No Excuse For Being Stupid."
As Right Wing extremist James Dobson and his minions from Focus on the Family criss-cross the country holding rallies and using the pulpit as a tool to service their political agenda of restricting...
View ArticleHelping Out the Slow Kid in Class
Whenever you take a class, at some point it becomes painfully obvious that one of the other students just doesn't get it. They appear not to read the assignments, they don't take notes in class, their...
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