Phil Plait on a great change made by Google — since so many people search for health information, the results now have a much greater emphasis on actual scientific answers, not bogus pseudoscience or anti-vaxxer garbage. For example: Read Phil’s full piece here.
In a January 30th entry on this site, I wrote: The other night, Larry Wilmore was discussing the subject on his “Nightly Show” and one of the panelists was a woman who doesn’t allow her children to be vaccinated. At one point, she said, “Do you know that the companies that make these vaccines have […]
Although I’ve enjoyed some of Bill Maher’s act for years, there were parts that drove me crazy, like the way he berates his audience when they don’t laugh at one of his lines or, more importantly, his occasional stupidity on anti-science matters. Yet I looked past that and continued to watch his show because there […]
I have been talking about the dangers of anti-vaxxers for years, so the recent outbreak of measles that began at Disneyland and has infected more than a hundred people across six states really pisses me off. This is a disease we had almost eradicated 15 years ago, before con man Andrew Wakefield released his bogus […]
“Faster, Higher, Stronger” isn’t just the Olympics motto (“Citius, Altius, Fortius”). It’s also the title of a fascinating new book by Mark McClusky, subtitled “How Sports Science Is Creating A New Generation Of Superathletes,” When Mark joined me on KTRS, the topics we covered included: Is there such a thing as a modern athlete who […]
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry has published an open letter — signed by James Randi, Bill Nye, Ann Druyan, Daniel Dennett, Lawrence Krauss, Sanal Edamaruku, Eugenie Scott, and a slew of other scientists and Nobel Prize winners — asking the media to stop using the word “skeptic” to describe climate change deniers: As Fellows of […]