Posted in Science, WTF on March 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I heard this on the morning news and thought I just had to bring it up here as the Pope has added a whole bunch of new sins that will send you to hell. Some of these I can somewhat understand, but a couple are just a little narrow-sighted in their intention:
“You offend God [...]
Posted in HIV, Public Health, Science on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So it seems that Bush and company have decided that they are no longer forcing much of their AIDs money to go into abstinence only campaigns. Instead they now require ‘justification’ if less than 50% of money doesn’t go into abstinence or faithfulness campaigns, which may sound reasonable but it will depend in my view [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Science on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With Florida deciding if they should adopt good science standards or insert nonsense from the usual suspects, I think a quick reminder of my previous “turtles all the way down” essay is in order. Despite the age of this and that it’s a fairly common anti-ID argument, I’ve never really seen it adequately refuted. One [...]
Posted in HIV, Public Health, Science on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This news article in Nature, entitled, HIV can ‘never be cured’ caught my interest pretty much immediately as it describes some interesting new research on the HIV virus and for its unusually pessimistic title. For one thing, it’s true that HIV is a very tricky virus to get rid of because it attacks the immune [...]
Posted in History, Science on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Darwin day to everyone and have a good time reflecting upon the role of this great mans theory in enhancing our understanding of biology today! Scientificblogging and the Pandas thumb will both be collecting some interesting posts on Darwin over the day or so. One I’ve found that I particularly liked, was by Josh [...]
Posted in Farming, Public Health, Science on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
[This is a repost from my previous blog that's semi-relevant to another topic I'm going to bring up in the near future on this blog. It's also a cheap way of getting postcount++ while I don't have the time to make a totally new post. Enjoy!]
Cannibalism is one of those practices that, at least as [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Science on February 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dr. Simmons, who is the man best known for his hideously terrible arguments he put forward against PZ Myers in their recent debate, is apparently doing a Black Knight. He accuses PZ Myers of a variety of things, such as not paying attention to the points he raised, bearing in mind that Dr. Simmons never [...]
Posted in Critters, Science on February 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I got the opportunity to go and have a wander around a stream near a friends house. After poking at various insects and other creepy crawlies, it occurred to me to have a look in the water and see if I could find anything a bit different than the usual [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Research Blogging, Science on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a further update on the discussion the other day about Casey Luskin using the research blogging icon inappropriately on the official research blogging news site here.
I talked privately with science ethicist Janet Stemwedel, and she agrees that the blurring of the distinction between what’s supported by the article itself and what constitutes the [...]
Posted in History, Science on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Although some visitors may wonder if the blogs title “Animalcules” is spelt incorrectly, as it certainly is a funny way of spelling “animals”, it’s actually a homage to one of the most significant early microbiologists, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Van Leeuwenhoek was a remarkable man, as he observed many previously unknown microorganisms, most importantly bacteria, without [...]
