Category Archives: Experts

Bono, Op-Eds, and Analysis

Posted on January 16, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Bono has some very valuable real estate, and, in a political discourse that desperately needs more critical analysis, to use that space for literature is a shame.
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Can We Reduce Scientific Output to a Single Number?

Posted on January 1, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

And do we want to? Maybe it could help formally include non-publishing activities in a scientist’s evaluation?
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Posted in Experts, Publishing | 3 Comments

Nice Conflict of Interest You Got There: The Laura Tyson Edition

Posted on December 26, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

On being a Berkeley professor versus a paid board member of Morgan Stanley.
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Posted in Bidness, Big Shitpile, Ethics, Experts | 12 Comments

The Intellectual Cowardice of Michael Egnor

Posted on March 18, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

Trolling, masquerading as intellectual discussion
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Posted in Creationism, Evolution, Experts, Fucking Morons, The War on Science | 2 Comments

Should We Let Creationists Dictate Our Time: A Response to Tristero

Posted on November 6, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Life is far too short to provide Behe the anterior-posterior extraction procedure he so desperately needs.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Creationism, Evolution, Experts | 6 Comments

FOX TV Misinformation About MRSA

Posted on October 31, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

FOX TV: doing its part to make the MRSA problem even worse.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Education, Experts, Fucking Morons, Microbiology, MRSA, Ninnies, The War on Science, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 13 Comments

Being Imprecise About the Details of Catastrophe…

Posted on October 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

…doesn’t invalidate the person making the prediction.
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Posted in Economics, Experts, Iraq | 2 Comments

The Ontological Impossibility of Conservative Governance…

Posted on August 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

and one reason why most scientists oppose the Bush administration.
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Posted in Conservatives, Experts, Little Lord Pontchartrain, The War on Science | 3 Comments

A Good Critique of the Unified Theory of the Surge

Posted on August 1, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Robert Farley takes on two of the major proponents of the Unified Theory of the Surge, Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack.
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Posted in Experts, Fucking Morons, Iraq | 4 Comments

Pundits Aren’t Experts (Usually)

Posted on July 16, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Many pundits claim an aura of expertise that is unwarranted. They have no more expertise than you or I do, so why should they be granted any extra authority?
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Posted in Bloggity Blog, Experts, News Media | 4 Comments