Monthly Archives: October 2006

Science Isn’t So Hard

Posted on October 27, 2006 by

At least that’s what Tristero of Hullabaloo says:
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Posted in Evolution, Fucking Morons, The War on Science | 6 Comments

Defending, Not Using, Victims

Posted on October 27, 2006 by

More than a few conservatives are upset about the Michael J. Fox commercials because they’re unfair: how do you respond to the emotional pull of someone who has Parkinson’s disease?
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Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Conservatives, Democrats, Iraq, Progressives, The War on Science | 3 Comments

Words As Weapons

Posted on October 27, 2006 by

Lance Mannion notes that Rush “Big Pharma” Limbaugh uses words in the same way creationists do: as weapons.
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Posted in Conservatives, Creationism, Fucking Morons, Propaganda

An Unreal Campaign Event

Posted on October 27, 2006 by

Michael Schiavo reports on a truly weird campaign event held by Republican congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave.
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Fucking Morons, The War on Science | 4 Comments

I See Crazy People, At Least 14% of the Time

Posted on October 26, 2006 by

From Billmon, comes this little factoid hidden in the latest Gallup poll:
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, We're Really Fucked | 7 Comments

MRSA and ‘Search and Destroy’

Posted on October 26, 2006 by

I have discussed the “search and destroy” strategy for controlling and reducing methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) before. Search-and-destroy involves the screening of every patient and hospital worker for MRSA.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Economics, Healthcare, Microbiology, MRSA, Public Health | 3 Comments

Google Bombs Away!

Posted on October 25, 2006 by

Majikthise reminds us to join Operation Google Bomb.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Internet, Lotsa Links, Pig Screwer | 1 Comment

The ‘Truth’ About Harold ‘Fancy’ Ford

Posted on October 25, 2006 by

In the Tennessee Senate race, the Republicans have been viciously playing the race card. They have been referring to Democrat Harold Ford as ‘Fancy’ Ford because he, a single black man, has dated…white women
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Pig Screwer, Racism

“The Vapidity of the Whole Meme Thing”

Posted on October 24, 2006 by

Chad writes: He [Dawkins] rubs me the wrong way when he talks about science (I wish I could find the old post somebody on ScienceBlogs did about the vapidity of the whole “meme” thing), and really gets up my nose when he talks about religion. I don’t know if he’s referring to my critique of the meme concept, but I figured it gives me an excuse to resurrect this post about memes from the old site.
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Posted in Evolution, Memes | 15 Comments

An Obvious Solution for the Lancet Article ‘Controversy’

Posted on October 23, 2006 by

When the Lancet study first came out, I argued that conservatives couldn’t just criticize–they had to offer their own alternative, credible numbers for the civilian death toll. Matt Yglesias goes one further: why not a second study using credible methods … Continue reading →

Posted in Iraq, Statistics | 2 Comments