From the Leader of the New Creationists

Official New Creationists Newsletter
Fellow New Creationists, our strength to undermine science grows stronger every day!
As you know, I have just released my version of events in a new book. In this New Creationist document, I distance myself -and thus our ultimate goals – from “wild-eyed fundamentalists”. I stake claim to a position of “nuance”. I [...]

Hitler was a creationist

From Mein Kampf:
Walking about in the garden of Nature, most men have the self-conceit to think that they know everything; yet almost all are blind to one of the outstanding principles that Nature employs in her work. This principle may be called the inner isolation which characterizes each and every living species on this earth. [...]

Thought of the day

If you believe Hitler used Darwinism to justify the Holocaust you are (a) wrong, (b) ignorant of history (Hitler did no such thing), (c) attempting to make an Argument from Consequence (which is logically fallacious), and (d) not saying a damn thing about the validity of evolutionary theory.

Leonid Meteor Shower

There is a meteor shower tonight. Most any location should offer decent views, but it will be necessary to stay up a bit late. The best viewing hours are between 1 a.m. and about until the sun comes up on the east coast.

Humble pie

Some time ago I wrote a letter to the editor of the Kennebec Journal. After 10 days without seeing it in print, I sent an email.
I recently submitted a letter to the editor. It has been over a week since I sent it. It refuted the irresponsible claims made by a pseudo-doctor. It was [...]

Protecting Killers

I wrote some time ago about Leilani and Dale Neumann. They thought it appropriate to only pray for their diabetic daughter. They did not take her to get diagnosed, and when her health became grave, they continued in their quest to neglect her. They deserve to be put in prison; they have other children, not [...]

More naturopathy

Over at ScienceBlogs, Greg Laden has an excellent post concerning naturopathic medicine. Here he describes one incident of the sort of danger these quack practitioners pose.
The Naturopath treated John with various herbal and homeopathic medicines, and recommended other treatments such as massage. But during the last few months, John had become weaker and weaker, threw [...]

Lac Operon

The lac operon of E. coli is the classic example for describing inducible prokaryotic gene expression. One excellent video description of it can be found here.
The jist is this. Not all genes are turned on all the time. There are ones which are needed constantly, others which are only needed in specific types of [...]

Thought of the day

Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any “miraculous” cures from [...]

Water on the Moon

NASA discovered there is plenty of water on the moon.
Experts have long suspected there was water on the moon. So the thrilling discovery announced Friday sent a ripple of hope for a future astronaut outpost in a place that has always seemed barren and inhospitable.
“We found water. And we didn’t find just a little bit. [...]