Denialism

Month: December 2008

  • Chuck E. Choke ’em!

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    Chris
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    If you’re looking for some fun, family fighting, the place to go is Chuck E. Cheese’s. Who knew? The Journal reports: In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese’s. Officers have been called to break up 12 fights, some of them physical, at…

  • Terrorism denialism

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    MarkH
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    I was reading two articles on disparate subjects and found them oddly linked in my mind. The first former terrorist Bill Ayers’ explanation of why he didn’t respond when Obama was smeared by association and the second P. Michael Conn and James V. Parker writing for the WaPo about the escalation in recent years of…

  • Why am I here again?

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    MarkH
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    Perhaps because I don’t blog anonymously, or maybe for other reasons, I don’t write that much about my personal life. That kind of writing can be self-important, insipid, and boring. But it can also have real power. A number of the anonymous bloggers here describe the intersection of the scientific life and family life with…

  • Carnivalia, blog business, etc.

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    MarkH
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    Carnival of the Liberals is up at Capitol Annex Skeptics’ Circle 101 is up at Ionian Enchantment. You may have noticed the Friend Feed widget on the sidebar. I’ve added this as a sort of “mini-blog”, where we can post brief links or stories. I’d say it’s just out of beta at this point, but…

  • The Gay Mob Gets God’s Goat

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    Chris
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    I was tickled today to see a full-page ad running in the Times (Page A13) asking readers to reject the “Mob Veto.” What mob veto? The gay mob veto! The gays are engaging in “violence and intimidation” against the Mormons because of their support for Proposition 8 (California’s gay marriage ban.) I never thought I’d…

  • tobacco and mental illness

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    MarkH
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    Anyone who works with the mentally ill knows that they smoke more than other people. In fact, people with mental illness (hereafter, MI, not to be confused with myocardial infarction) are about twice as likely to smoke as people without mental illness, with smoking rates of 60-90%. One of my favorite stats is that “44%…

  • Smokers—what should we do with them?

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    MarkH
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    We sometimes treat them like second-class citizens. Or do we? Certainly smokers hate it when we force them out into the cold for a butt. Here in Michigan, we’re thinking about restricting smoking in a lot of public places. There benefits are supposed to accrue to three groups: the smokers themselves, their co-workers who are…

  • Where do you get your mercury?

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    MarkH
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    There is an ongoing discussion amongst our Sciblings regarding our German counterparts at scienceblogs.de. Apparently they have some odd folks as science bloggers over there, including people who think ayurvedic heavy metals are good for you. In the tradition of countering speech with speech, I’m giving you this repost. More to come, I’m sure. –PalMD…