What is it with ID and Dinosaurs anyway? Isn’t that something like building a Judaica gift shop around a giant statue of Jesus?
Jesse Walker at reason.com writes: As a card-carrying evolutionist, all I can say is this: Keep the faith, Dinny. Roadside attractions should be weird. And better a private park than a public school.”
“They” say the dems would do much better politically if they’d stop making such painstaking analyses of each other and just hang together as a team. The same could be said of popularizers of science, i.e., the nits picked in this review of Jennifer Ouellette’s new book Black Bodies and Quantum Cats.
To review a popularization book from an “is the science perfect?” perspective, you miss a lot about its importance to science. If as a scientist you wanted to use popular culture references to communicate your ideas to the masses, would you really want someone to discount your science if the reference wasn’t perfect?
Science Vigilante would not want to be held to either standard.
Got this one in my inbox today. Poor FCC.
Makes Science Vigilante wonder if we have “sicced” any social scientists on the question of why and how chain letter hoaxes (GLURGE) fare so well with their poorly constructed reasoning, desperate emotional pleas and low standards of evidence. (Someone MUST be studying this, right?) Kind of reminds me of other ignorant arguments that thrive despite their poorly constructed reasoning, desperate emotional pleas and low standards of evidence.
So in honor of poor murdered Madalyn O’Hair and out of sympathy for the FCC’s mail clerks: Claim: Signing and circulating online petitions is an effective way of remedying important issues. Status: False.
Barbara and David P. Mikkelson, I think I love you.
Science Vigilante IS SO TORN. On the one hand, kudos to Science for putting evolution into the headlines the way it belongs — in a context of science and evidence. On the other hand, things are bad enough that evidence of evolution (okay new information on how evolution works — obviously the authors weren’t merely looking for evidence of evolution) is a “top breakthrough?” Ipe!
