by Carl Howard | Aug 19, 2015 | Evolution and Biology, Science and Skepticism
It’s Sydney Science Festival this week so I’m going to 4 talks and liveblogging them. Tonight’s talk by Simon Ho is Time After Time: Measuring Evolution with Molecular Clocks, discussing the research he’s been involved with. Phylogenetic tree with Darwin, a chimp,...
by Carl Howard | Apr 14, 2015 | Atheism and Religion, Evolution and Biology, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Philosophy
This is an oldie (from 2014) but a goodie. A legit science website (Science 2.0) publishes an blog post entitled Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke by Nury Vittachi. It’s a great example of what happens when you try to be so...
by Carl Howard | Nov 4, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Science and Skepticism
To start with (Via Pharyngula), an astoundingly ignorant rant: “My primary reason for being here is because I believe the Supreme Court should not be legislating from the bench. But I also believe that homosexuality is bad thing,”? he said. “It used to be useful when...
by Carl Howard | Apr 29, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Evolution and Biology, Feminism and LGBT, Science and Skepticism
There have been some stories over the last few years of parents who are raising a “genderless” child. Of course, this always gets a severe case of moral panic and I have found even people who are usually a bit less prone to such stuff lose their shit a little. Two of...
by Carl Howard | Jun 14, 2012 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Science and Skepticism
I’ve read a lot of claims by creationists so I’m used to wildly biologically-implausible claims. However, I’ve been having a slight back and forth that was so strange and dare I say ridiculous that I just have to share it. It’s about this old post where I discuss the...
by Carl Howard | Jun 5, 2012 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Science and Skepticism
Ages ago, it occured to me that some words are just red flags for ridiculous arguments. Not exactly groundbreaking, I know. Yet it was surprising that there’s quite a lot of them. In my biased experience, when someone uses one of these words in an argument, this is...
