There’s a new law in Tennessee that will hurt science education in that state by allowing creationism and global warming denial to be taught alongside the real science of evolution and climate change. It amazes me that these same ignorant arguments are being made nine decades after the Scopes monkey trial took place (in the […]
I have written often, as has my friend Phil Plait, about the dangers the anti-vaccination movement has caused. Today on his blog, Phil has the sad story of how there have been more than 3 dozen cases of pertussis (whooping cough) in Boulder so far this year — 30 of those were under 18 years […]
There was an event in DC last weekend called The Reason Rally, a gathering of the secular movement that attracted about 20,000 people — despite rain and cool temperatures. The list of speakers and performers fighting for science and reason included James Randi, Michael Shermer, Paul Provenza, Tim Minchin, Richard Dawkins, Eddie Izzard, and the […]
James Randi has begun a new column for Wired, with a debut entitled “America, The Beautiful (And Nutty): A Skeptic’s Lament.” In it, he lays out a statement of his personal convictions, all of which he was written and spoken about extensively for decades, and will no doubt touch on again in future columns: Those […]
I have written often about the danger of parents who refuse to allow their children be vaccinated. It’s almost always because they are misinformed or refuse to believe scientists who have time and again proven that vaccines don’t, for instance, cause autism, and that we need as many people vaccinated as possible to ensure herd […]
Stuart Robbins kept an ear on George Noory’s “Coast to Coast AM” radio show throughout 2010 to hear what we should expect in 2011, as predicted by professional “psychics” and random callers to the show. At the end of 2011, he went back to compare the predictions to reality and found (once again) that they […]