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Fantastical Fridays: Psychedelic Psilocybin Psychology
Although a given scientific paper probably has at least something fairly interesting or unique about it, most people aren’t going to be too interested in reading about, for example, the structural...
View ArticleGlobal Warming, Creationism, and Religious Nutcases
Since I’ve been on the road so much lately, I haven’t really had a chance to follow up on some of the more interesting links forwarded to me lately. Each probably deserves its own post… but I’m going...
View ArticleThis Is Exactly What I’m Talking About
OK, I’ll admit that this is more than a little scary. In a recent entry, I expressed skepticism toward a recent finding in Nature that had been hailed as a way to extract “ethically sound” lines of...
View ArticlePlease, Please, No More Rick Perry
This won’t be news to anyone from Texas, but our governor, Republican Rick Perry, is a walking disaster. From The Dallas Morning News: SAN ANTONIO – Gov. Rick Perry, after a God and country sermon...
View Article“Moderate” Republicans Pander to the Religious Right
As 2008 approaches, many of the Republican contenders for the Presidency will try to paint themselves as moderates. An article in today’s Washington Post, though, underlines why we should be weary of...
View ArticleChristopher Hitchens: Karl Rove is an Atheist
In a recent interview published in New York Magazine, writer Christopher Hitchens is asked “Has anyone in the Bush administration confided in you about being an atheist?”. His answer: Well, I don’t...
View ArticleA Book, Stunning in Both Its Beauty and Its Ignorance
A few months ago, my boss (a professor of structural biology at the University of Oxford) received a strange package in the mail, unsolicited. It contained a rather large and colorful book that was...
View ArticleMore Impressions of the Atlas of Creation
Yesterday, I mentioned the Atlas of Creation a book by Islamic creationist Adnan Oktar (a.k.a. Harun Yahya) sent unsolicited to scientists around the world. My boss also received a copy a few months...
View ArticleArchbishop to England: Take Your Fancy Schmancy Legal Tradition and Shove It
The Guardian reports today that Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, raised eyebrows last night when he suggested that the UK ought to recognize sharia law. Sharia law, or Islamic law, forms...
View ArticleMcCain’s Own Agents of Intolerance
As the media circus over Jeremiah Wright continues, it should give us pause that the media hasn’t decided to focus on John McCain and his embrace of a wide range of religious bigots. Although McCain...
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