Denialism

Month: October 2007

  • Breast Cancer Crankery From Mike Adams

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    The latest crankery from Adams is the evil male-chauvinist conspiracy to perpetuate breast cancer for fun and profit being led by none other than those dastardly villains of the American Cancer Society. With his stunning report and links to the thinkbeforeyoupink campaign, he rails against the ribbons that are a “symbol of male-dominated control over…

  • No Imagination Without Religion? Lee Seigel is an idiot.

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    Noted sockpuppet and sniveler Lee Siegel warns us that the new militant atheists may be closing the book on imagination. And for some reason the LA Times saw fit to publish this tripe. In the last few years, so many books have rolled off the presses challenging God, belief and religion itself (by Sam Harris,…

  • The Greatest Generation and Interrogation

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    A must-read from the Washington Post about how interrogations went in WWII. For six decades, they held their silence. The group of World War II veterans kept a military code and the decorum of their generation, telling virtually no one of their top-secret work interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt. When about two…

  • Hillary Clinton will restore the OTA

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    Good news from the political front. Hillary Clinton plans to re-establish the OTA if elected. Fifth, we’re going to stop substituting ideology for science and evidence, and we’re going to start giving the American people again the facts on the issues that matter to them and their families. Over the past six years, this Administration…

  • 5 Alternative Medicine Treatments that Work?

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    CNN suggests there are 5 (count them 5) alternative medicine treatments that actually work! How pathetic is it for altie-meds that the article is presented this way. You know, 5 altie-med therapies that work versus, well, all real pharmaceuticals that actually have proven medical effects. As many have pointed out, if it works, it ceases…

  • Mixing Religion and Politics – bad for religion too

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    Check out this fascinating new study from the Barna group that appears to show the damage that is being done to the Christian faith by the political actions of right wing fundamentalists. This should serve as a serious wake-up call for the culture warriors who are attempting to increase the role of religion in politics…

  • Which is a worse lie?

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    I’m thinking of lies from presidents and the resulting scandal. On the one hand we have the impeachment of Clinton for “I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.” On the other we have “We do not torture” from George W. Bush combined with the news that we do indeed torture people. It…

  • A Critical Appraisal of “Chronic Lyme” in the NEJM

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    The New England Journal has an article on the phenomenon known as chronic Lyme disease. Lyme disease, is a tick-borne infectious disease caused by an bacterium known as Borrelia burgdorferi carried by ticks in certain regions of the United States and Europe in which it is endemic. Here is the US map of cases below.…

  • Can You Believe They Posed for This?

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    We should have a LOL caption contest for this.

  • WSJ: Wal-Mart Era Wanes

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    Maybe Americans’ bad taste can be reformed! Gary McWilliams reports: The Wal-Mart Era, the retailer’s time of overwhelming business and social influence in America, is drawing to a close. […] Rival retailers lured Americans away from Wal-Mart’s low-price promise by offering greater convenience, more selection, higher quality, or better service. Amid the country’s growing affluence,…