Denialism

Month: January 2009

  • SF Chron: Ignore the Anti-Abortion Protestors

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    In good Denialism blog form, the San Francisco Chronicle’s C. W. Nevius has urged readers to just ignore this week’s anti-abortion protest in San Francisco. He makes a good point: This is the fifth year in San Francisco for the “Walk for Life.” Bolstered by supporters who are bused in from all over – this…

  • Patrick McGoohan, Creator of The Prisoner, Dead at 80

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    “All that remains is . . . recognition of a man.” Patrick McGoohan, the creator of one of my favorite television series, The Prisoner, has died at 80. The Prisoner was a challenging and entertaining series that explored civil liberties, privacy, individuality, and democracy. My favorite episodes were Free for All and A Change of…

  • The Beautiful Truth

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    Guess what? A natural therapy can cure cancer, but evil doctors don’t want to tell you about it, because the medical establishment wants to make money with Mosanto and Dupont rather than cure your illnesses! Watch all about it. Update: Sorry, I missed Orac’s successful attack on this thing. Thanks Science Pundit, for pointing it…

  • The Ayn Rand Deprogrammer: A More Twisted Crime and Punishment

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    Sciblings, I really appreciate all of the suggested texts submitted for the Ayn Rand Deprogrammer. If you visit the comment thread, you’ll see that the inevitable happened: Objectivists tried to hijack the discussion. I say ignore them. Eyes on the prize: a solid Ayn Rand Deprogrammer. Any distraction will slow us down, and delay publication…

  • 6 Cases of Shameless False Advertising

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    are brought to you by mental floss. HT to Rebecca Tushnet via Frank Pasquale.

  • Berkeley Releases Study on San Francisco Cameras

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    I am really proud of my colleagues here at UC Berkeley for performing a first of its kind (in the US) study of the efficacy of police surveillance cameras. Its findings are limited to San Francisco’s system, but it is valuable in thinking through whether and how surveillance cameras should be implemented. I have to…

  • Monday, Monday, or “A day in the life”

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    There’s no way a day can be entirely predictable, but I do like sharing a glimpse into the personal/professional life every once in a while. You see, the personal and professional can’t be so easily disentangled, and whether you are a physician, scientist, grad student, or barrista, you only have one “real life”. 0600: Pager.…

  • Update:PalCast

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    This week’s PalCast is still in production, so your patience is appreciated. Previous episodes are here.

  • Look, Ma, I’m on TV!

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    Ok, really, it’s bloggingheads.tv. Dr. Free Ride from Adventures in Ethics and Science invited me for a chat about ethics, which you can view, well, right now. Next time, I’ll remember to keep the camera a bit further away.

  • Swayze on woo

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    Mrs. Pal just called me upstairs where she was watching Barbara Walters. She (Walters, not Mrs Pal) was interviewing actor Patrick Swayze who is battling metastatic pancreatic cancer, a disease which will certainly kill him. Walters asked him quite a bit about the disease and treatment, and Swayze, whose answers were earthy, but pretty accurate,…