Denialism

Month: May 2007

  • Evil evolutionists have power over space and time!

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    Hey PZ, when do I get access to the time machine! I’m so jealous. Apparently sites like Talk Origins and Panda’s thumb have been subverting the study of transposons because of their Darwinist bigotry. And they’ve been doing it since 1956!

  • Bronze Dog gets it

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    Visit the Bronze Blog for a very thorough list of woo justifications, or Doggerel as Bronze Dog puts it, and help him think of more examples. My favorite so far they once thought the Earth was flat.

  • Who’s the bigger liability for ID?

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    I thought Michael Egnor was the DI’s biggest liability for stupid arguments. Now I’m thinking based on Aferensis’ posts that it’s probably Dave Scot based on his suggestion that “All the hominid fossils we have wouldn’t fill a single coffin.” But my favorite part of how embarrassing he is for humanity is how people, sometimes…

  • Denialists’ Deck of Cards: The 4 of Diamonds, “Consumer Freedom”

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    Given that there is consumer education, any attempt to limit the practices in questions threaten consumer freedom. Denialists will assume that people are perfectly rational and in possession of all relevant information. Thus, individuals choose the problem being addressed, and to limit it frustrates consumer freedom, because they like the problem or harm at issue.

  • XKCD fun

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    I should just feed every xkcd straight into the scienceblogs. Luckily they believe in CC.

  • This reminds me of a joke I once heard…

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    Dembski misses the point as always with his recent post describing why the vertebrate eye is again evidence of design. You see, the big bad Darwinists used the structure of the eye, which has its photoreceptors in the back behind all the layers of the retina, as evidence that our eye isn’t designed, because what…

  • Denialists’ Deck of Cards: The Second Hand, Consumer Education

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    Okay, you’ve tried denying that the problem exists, you’ve tried to trivialize the problem, and you’ve even argued that the problem causes so harm, so it isn’t a problem. Obviously, this no harm thing begins to have diminishing returns. What’s next?

  • Adult Stem Cell Nonsense

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    For this Friday afternoon I thought I’d rehash a previous post from denialism.com on adult stem cells and those that hype results inappropriately to disparage embryonic stem (ES) cells. It all started with an exciting JAMA article about using autologous stem cell transplants to help treat type I diabetics who still had some capacity to…

  • Comment policy

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    I’m turning on moderation since the 9/11 truthers have shown up and desire to show me how they’re not cranks by hijacking threads and linking their conspiracy sites. Sorry about that. But I don’t think it’s a valuable use of time to argue with cranks. I also won’t accept comments that are just drive-by trollings,…

  • Friday Cartoon fun

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    I realize I’ve put this up before, but it’s too relevant to our discussions all week to pass up. Via xkcd.