Denialism

Month: January 2009

  • The Ayn Rand Deprogrammer: Submissions Solicited

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    Sciblings, I request your assistance in an important venture. I recently learned that Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was a top read among UC Berkeley undergrads in 1987 and 1997. This dismaying fact drove me to start assembling a reader, The Ayn Rand Deprogrammer. I’ve spent the last several weeks reviewing possible texts for this important…

  • It’s Just Crazytalk in the Journal

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    If you want to get an idea of how crazy the Wall Street Journal editorial board is, read Friday’s oped by their senior economist, Stephen Moore. The title itself says a lot: ‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years.” Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to…

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  • Site Upgrade

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    ScienceBlogs is going to be having it’s back end worked on starting sometime tomorrow, which is much less uncomfortable than it sounds. If I have something that I absolutely can’t resist telling you, it will be up at my old WP blog until Sb gets its new and improved back end up and running.

  • Podcast Update

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    The feed for my nascent podcast (dubbed “PalCast” by Isis) has moved. You may or may not be affected (assuming you’re a listener). The new feed address is here, but you’re still better off using feedburner. This switch is due to the benevolence of our Seed Overlords, who graciously gave me a little corner of…

  • Rejecting Homosexual Children Results in Disastrous Health Outcomes – An Appeal to Parents

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    Not infrequently, science butts heads with culture as the data scientists collect about issues of the day may conflict with cultural perceptions and deeply-held beliefs. Attitudes and perceptions about homosexuality are, not surprisingly, a source of denialism as certain overvalued ideas about sexuality are being challenged with our deeper understanding of human sexual desire. For…

  • Chris Mooney on the deniers

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    Welcome to the new year, and now that I’m back from a little family vacation I’d like to applaud PAL for the excellent job he did summarizing our thesis, and the job he’s done in general in the last year. I’m busy doing my last 3rd year clerkship in neurology (even though I’m graduating in…

  • Welcome to Culture Dish!

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    I couldn’t be more thrilled to see that Rebecca Skloot has joined scienceblogs. I remember reading her article on HeLa cells and thinking it was the best science writing I’d ever read. So, sorry for the late announcement and welcome to Rebecca!

  • Gupta for Surgeon General? Cool.

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    As my regular readers know, I recently lost my father-in-law. He was a terrific teacher and loved to brag about students who had done well. One of his favorite “brags” was Sanjay Gupta of CNN, and now, the Washington Post is reporting that Obama wants Sanjay to be the next Surgeon General. Dick, I wish…

  • Podcast 4

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    Podcast 4 is up…check it out.