Ah, that tolerant Right…

 

 

Man set on fire in alleged racial attack – British Columbia – CBC News.

A sign of things to come

This has been building for years now.  Right wing hyper-partisanship run rampant.

CANOE — CNEWS – U.S. Election: Campaign managers cat slain.

The question is, how much further can this go?

More to the point, when will Cons actually get off their asses to condemn these actions?

Attempting to legislate science…again

This time in Missouri.  I guess we should ask…Show me the actual evidence for ID.

http://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/biltxt/intro/HB1227I.htm

Watts eating Anthony

Apparently Anthony Watts helped fund a study on the supposed “Heat Island Effect”.  According to Watts, this effect caused questionable temperature anomolies that confused professional climatologists, among other claims.

Well, now that study is in, and as pointed out in the following link, it shows that the Heat Island effect doesn’t do what he claimed it did.  In fact, this report shows that Climate change is happening…

 

Hey Anthony: Watts up with this? | The Zingularity.

 

Anthony’s response…

I consider the paper fatally flawed as it now stands, and thus I recommend it be removed from publication consideration by JGR until such time that it can be reworked.

Sounds like sour grapes on Anthony’s part…or maybe he’s scared of losing his denier funding (speculation, of course).

In which Associate Professor Davison becomes a stalker

Apparently the associate professor is not content to stalk actual scientists.  He’s taken to stalking a Cornell University Ph. D. student.  Why, one may ask?  Well, the ASSociate Professor claims Stuart Campbell  “wanted to debate me”.  However, there is a distinct lack of proof that this student would want anything to do with the ASSociate Professor.  More likely, the ASSociate professor got bored and proceeded to inflict unwanted attention on an innocent student who…well…who knows how Davison’s mind works.

Aside from dishonestly avoiding evidence presented to his face that is (PZ Myers has more publications than the ASSociate professor).

And now he’s given this Ph. D. student an “Ultimatum”…

“…I gave Stuart Campbell one week to produce others willing to join him in denouncing our science. He has produced not a single ally.”

I daresay this student has more, and better, things to do than stroke the ASSociate professors ego.  That’s a job better left to his fluffer, Trainor.

I, however, am proud to stand with Ph. D. student Stuart Campbell.  A link to this post will be posted to Davison’s, heh, blog.  However, I doubt it will stay.  Davison is much to wrapped up in his martyr complex to allow it to.

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Can Christians even read

Ed Brayton has an amusing post about Bryan Fischer, attack chihuahua of the AFA.  Apparently he’s into selective quoting of the bible…which seems to be a Christian attribute.

Go read Ed’s post…http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/10/17/has-bryan-fischer-read-his-own-bible/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freethoughtblogs%2Fdispatches+%28FTB%3A+Dispatches+from+the+Culture+Wars%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Long story short…Fischer is blaming Muslims for slavery perpetuated by Christians.  Not the stupidest thing a Christian said, but it rates right up there.

 

An example of what could happen if creationists get in power

This article points out that officials appointed by Prez candidate Rick Perry censored and modified parts of a scientific report that they didn’t agreee with.  It looks like these were censored/modified strictly for potlitical reason, not for anything based in reality.

Rick Perry officials spark revolt after doctoring environment report | Environment | The Guardian.

 

False prophets

Ed Brayton has a post about that great false prophet Pat Robertson talking about, well, false prophets.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/10/10/false-prophet-criticizes-false-prophets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freethoughtblogs%2Fdispatches+%28FTB%3A+Dispatches+from+the+Culture+Wars%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

talk about blinkers…

 

Why regulation is needed…

Looks like the invisible hand of the free market did a piss-poor job here…

Tobacco Companies Hid Evidence of Radiation in Cigarettes for Decades – ABC News.

Looks like profit trumps safety.

Tilting at windmills again

It would appear that Associate Professor Davison may be stalking another innocent victim.  He’s claiming he’s being “plagued” by one Stuart Campbell who, according to Davison, merely wants to debate him.

Now, if Mr. Campbell is at all familiar with Davison, he should know he doesn’t debate.  He abuses, he dissembles, he whines, he affects a martyr pose.  He doesn’t debate.  This is on top of the fact he has nothing to debate about.

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Now he claims that Mr. Campbell is “begging me to stop including him in my emails to the “Big 4 of Darwinian mysticism.”.  I find this interesting.  Since we have no idea what Mr. Campbell has actually said (since Davison likes to hide any opposition who posts, hiding behind rather bogus “rules”), I doubt Mr. Campbell actually contacted Davison at all.  Considering Davison’s history, it’s more likely that he started stalking another innocent victim in an attempt at relevency/ego stroking.

Having read some of Mr. Campbell’s entries on line, I doubt that, had he initiated the discussion, he wouldn’t be backing down in the manner Davison is implying.

On a lighter note, Davison offers up a “quote” from Harry Truman, leaving the first bit blank.  I’ll just finish it for him…

“John Davison is a living miracle with neither brains nor guts.”