March 11, 2018

The Scientific Method: Right Unless It's Wrong

I've said it before: the popular view of scientific inquiry is a joke.  Not like a joke, but literally this one: A man is walking down a street at night when he sees an old man at a street light, scouring the pavement for something....

June 11, 2015

Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Darwinian Stupidity

In 1906, Ota Benga, a 4' 11", 103 lb. African "pygmy" (actually a Bushman) was brought to America and put on display as an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo.  Pamela Newkirk, director of undergraduate studies at New York University...

December 11, 2014

Saving <em>Saving Christmas</em>

I am no great fan of Kirk Cameron films.  His latest, Saving Christmas, is currently derided far and wide as one of the worst films ever made.  Its rating on Rotten Tomatoes is a vainglorious 0%, while IMDB lists the film as No. 1 on its ...

September 6, 2014

One Order of Smart, to Go, Please

According to Yahoo, Google is now working on a super-fast "quantum" computer chip that may  one day result in machines that think like humans. Good luck with that. Science journalists love to write about Google, from software inn...

September 2, 2012

Bill Nye the Pseudoscience Guy

In a recent YouTube video, former children's TV host Bill Nye weighs in on evolutionary biology by telling the rest of us how to raise our children.  If we want to deny evolution, he says, that's our business, "but don't make your kids do it." ...

June 16, 2012

This Just In: Brainless Boson Outwits Scientists

The science headlines as of late have been all a-titter over the looming discovery of the Higgs boson, or, as it is more often referred to (in order to sell more newspapers), "the God Particle." Others call it "the champagne bottle boson," while at l...

May 28, 2012

SpaceX: Promises, Promises

Arthur C. Clarke set his masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey in the first year of the twenty-first century for two reasons:  to assure us that science and technology were on the cusp of great, far-sweeping changes, and to suggest that such changes...

May 11, 2012

Biden Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog

I find the suggestion that Obama will pick a new Veep in the 2012 election and rid himself of Joe "Gaffe" Biden to be borderline delusional. That such talk has appeared in American Thinker perplexes me all the more. Granted, the Obama administration ...