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Formaldehyde Found in Electronic Cigarettes? E-Cigs, Science, Regulation, and Me (Updated)
Time for yet another confession. I’m a nicotine addict. Unfortunately I’m not kidding. It first started when I was 15, but I did give it up (for a time), when I discovered that my mom was allergic. However, I was … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Law, Science, Skepticism
Tagged bad science, electronic cigarettes, Law, mechanical mods, regulated mods, regulation, science, terrible science, vaping, variable voltage mods
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Nature is Not a Cultural Construct
As many of you know, I’m studying Anthropology in school. I’m moving more and more towards the Evolutionary Biology/Primatology angle because I’m looking for a potential evolutionary explanation for fanaticism. Part of taking Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University entails taking … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, School
Tagged Anthropology, Anthropology of Nature, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Constructs, Nature, School, science
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Response to “Investigating Atheism”
Over on News24, BornAgain_Believer posted a series of questions called “Investigating Atheism“. I want to start out by noting, however, that these questions are loaded and have a lot of assumptions that are simply incorrect, at least for me. My … Continue reading
Posted in Agnosticism, Atheism, Christianity, Religion, Science, Secularism, Skepticism
Tagged agnosticism, atheism, Heaven, Hell, Investigating Atheism, Justice, Meaning, News 24, science
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New SI Unit for Measuring Pseudoscientific Bullshit – The Chopra
It was started at Avicenna’s blog A Million Gods. He opened that post with this: Am I the only one who wishes the SI unit for “bullshitting about science” to be measured in Deepak Chopras? And no, he’s not. I … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Skepticism
Tagged Avery Thompson, Avicenna, Bullshit, Daniel Schealler, Deepak Chopra, Metric System, Pseudoscience, science, SI Unit, skepticism, The Chopra
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A Miniseries about NASA
For anyone actually paying attention, it becomes readily obvious that NASA desperately needs more money. Neil deGrasse Tyson (one of my heroes) has tried for a very long time to get the NASA budget increased, but has so far, depressingly, … Continue reading
Posted in Commercialism, Government, Intelligence Squared, Law, Science, Skepticism, Technology
Tagged budget, curiosity rover, economy, government, jobs, Jupiter, Lisa Randall, mars, money, Morgan Freeman, NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Phil Plait, Saturn, science, survival, Technology, the Cosmos, the Future, the Kuiper Belt, the moon, the Oort Cloud, the universe
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Science Will Have all the Answers
I had just finished watching an old Intelligence Squared discussion/debate called “Science Will Have all the Answers” when I originally wrote this. It’s going up about a week later.
Posted in Science, Skepticism
Tagged "Science Will Have all the Answers", Intelligence Squared, Questions, science, skepticism
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Evidence for a Young Earth…
… Still waiting…
Posted in Agnosticism, Atheism, Christianity, Creation vs Evolution, Evolution, Religion, Science, Skepticism
Tagged Antitheism, atheism, evolution, God, religion, science, There is None, Young-Earth Creationism
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MY TEACHER DISCOVERED A NEW SPECIES OF CERCOPITHECUS MONKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hold on a sec. I gotta get over my excitement. This is absolutely fucking awesome! My Introduction to Biological Anthropology teacher at Florida Atlantic University, Professor Kate Detwiler, was part of a team that discovered a new species of monkey … Continue reading
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