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Conservatives declare war on science
Scientists had made a lot of headway of late in the public debate over climate science. Journalists no longer impulsively created false balance between climate scientists and ideological op ed...
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Lee Harris responds to Kepler article
I wrote a lengthy takedown of a recent piece by Lee Harris, "Science and the Republican Brain," just published at the American online magazine of the American Enterprise Institute.My main point in...
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Affirmative action for conservatives in science?
I greatly admire Jonathan Haidt and his book The Righteous Mind. The Weekly Standard cover story that attacks him is enough for my own motivated reasoning to move me in his corner. However, The...
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BFFs: Handed Wright, conservatives choose wrong
In 2008, the biggest political controversy (judging by the devoted time and resources) surrounded a black radical preacher by the name of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, of whom Obama was a member of his...
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The Republican Brain invades the Supreme Court
With the Supreme Court set to release their decision on the healthcare mandate in days, experts agree there is little to no legal basis by which any reasonable legal scholar could possibly strike it...
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Supreme Court shocks all with unhistoric health care decision
The precedent supporting the mandate was never in question. For legal experts and historians from all political stripes, it was a slam-dunk. After oral arguments, however, everyone had to re-evaluate...
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Unnamed doc cites side-effects of unknown drug Roberts may not take for decision
When Michael Savage told listeners of Savage Nation he had talked to a "world famous neurologist he knows" who told him epilepsy medication had made Justice John Roberts unfit to render his vote on...
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NRA chooses party over gun rights
I have always defined a person’s religion as that ideology that overrides all others, which isn’t always spiritual. A person reveals the god they worship when these various ideals come into...
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Citing scholars as saying the opposite of what they do
Once upon a time, climate deniers and creationists unable to find legitimate science to back up their beliefs had to manufacture pseudo-scientists and bogus studies to make their case. Not any...
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Why can't the left exploit hurricane/climate change connection?
We’ve seen, time and again, how facts fail to persuade. The brain isn’t wired to reason but to advocate, and challenges to our dearest assumptions are more likely to lead us to double-down than...
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CNN's only path back to relevance: choosing journalism over balance
The Romney campaign has thrown down the gauntlet and dared the media to call them on habitual falsehoods. They have effectively set up enough of a alternative-universe bubble they know they have...
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Does PolitiFact say Republicans lie nine times more? Really?
Jon Cassidy has just written a piece for Human Events that takes issue with a blog post of mine and a related article by Chris Mooney that contend conservatives have a bigger problem with factual...
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Unskewed Polls vs. Nate Silver
Krugman and others have been writing about the horse-race pundits vs. the nerds and whether a bias exists in the polls. So I'm putting the two favorite pollsters of Democrats and Republicans up for a...
View ArticleBest psychic predictions for 2012
Hearing what psychics predict for 2013 is no fun. You'll never remember what they predicted any way. It's much more illustrative to look at what psychics predicted for this past year by leading...
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Blogging Biology for Christian Schools: introduction
I am going to do daily posts on whatever strikes me as wacky or lending itself to mockery during my reading of the Biology for Christian Schools textbook (teacher’s edition) by William S. Pinkson, Jr....
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Science contradicts the Bible because it makes things better
(Part of an ongoing series looking at Biology for Christian Schools by Bob Jones University Press.)The intro to this "biology textbook" was already a doozy, but it should prepare you for the first...
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Michael Shermer's war on the War on Science
Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic Magazine, has given himself the unfortunate task of attempting to impose false equivalence by proving "both sides" are waging a "War on Science." Being the...
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Shermer uses different definition of abuse of science for liberals
Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic Magazine, seems to have an ideological need to create a liberal "War on Science" to balance out the undeniable one on the right. Because the universe does not make...
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Not sharing Shermer's values and politics is science abuse
I have listed Michael Shermer’s evidence to date for a “War on Science” alongside the evidence I used to claim the right was engaged in a War so people could see if they find...
View ArticleCU hires climate denier to balance scientists
The University of Colorado Boulder is home of Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), National Snow and Ice Data Center...
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