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Did the American Physical Society reverse its stance on global warming?(1)
The right wing blogosphere has been all atwitter the past couple of days over a blog post by Michael Asher at DailyTech alleging that the American Physical Society (APS) had reversed its previous position that human activity was fueling global warming. If that were true we should all sit up and take notice, except that’s not what really happened.
Getting The Message Out ~or~ How Not To Preach To The Choir
Recently I started writing a weekly blog post for my local CFI affiliate, Freethought Fort Wayne. This week however, instead of my usual blog post, I wanted to direct everyone to Tim Farley’s new blog, Skeptical Software Tools (a site that is definitely going on my blogroll). Tim only has one post of note up [...]
Ignorance is nonpartisan
Phil over at the Bad Astronomy Blog notes an interesting Gallup poll that asked participants whether they believed:
that God created humans exactly as they are now sometime in the last ten centuries,
or that humans developed over millions of years but with guidance from God,
or that humans developed over millions of years and God had no [...]
What’s the harm?
One of the common refrains heard when someone is challenged on their paranormal or supernatural beliefs is, “What’s the harm?” After all, if someone believes their grandfather’s ghost gave them solace during a crisis or that the tarot-reading neighbor is able to offer them some slight advantage in navigating life’s choices, who is harmed? At [...]