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Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.

You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that it loses itself early and does not find itself any more. --Mark TwainVisit Thoughts from Kansas
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ThoughtsSimple questions for stupid questioners in Creationism
27-Jul-2010Disco. president Bruce Chapman wonders: It is not clear why the number of academic freedom cases seem to be increasing. Is it because the iron hand of ideological conformity is squeezing professors more tightly? Or is it because more subjects of attack are fighting back in court?Or is it because he's making numbers up from thin air? Might it be not clear that the [..] Read complete article Visit Simple questions for stupid questioners

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ThoughtsBackfiring in Creationism
26-Jul-2010An interesting new article today at the Skeptic's Dictionary, explaining the backfire effect. Several recent papers have found that information contradicting people's initial beliefs can actually increase their acceptance of those beliefs. This is true in political contexts and in religious context. In one example, people given false information about a Supreme Court nominee (which [..] Read complete article Visit Backfiring

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ThoughtsNetroots Nation in Policy and Politics
25-Jul-2010 [..] Read complete article Visit Netroots Nation

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ThoughtsCalifornia whooping cough epidemic in Culture Wars
20-Jul-2010Calitics has the story about that whooping cough epidemic: With whooping cough now at epidemic levels, it's becoming clear that one of the primary culprits is the idiotic trend over the last 10 years of parents, mostly affluent whites, opting out of vaccination out of a baseless fear that the vaccines are unsafe. Read the comments on this post... [..] Read complete article Visit California whooping cough epidemic

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Thoughts#SBFAIL Continues in Chatter
20-Jul-2010Yesterday, Bora Zivkovic announced he was leaving ScienceBlogs. This is kinda huge. Bora is as close to a scienceblogging god as any scienceblogger will admit to believing in. He gives every evidence of omnipresence and omniscience about the interplay of science and the internet. He's created many of the ideas that keep the scienceblogging community together, not least the Science Online co [..] Read complete article Visit #SBFAIL Continues

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ThoughtsStephen Schneider, RIP in Culture Wars
19-Jul-2010In February, at the AAAS meetings in San Diego, Stephen Schneider gave a gangbuster talk about climate change denial. Schneider was energetic, feisty, and absolutely right about the challenges faced by scientists trying to talk to the media. NCSE's Genie Scott, a fellow panelist, came away deeply impressed, and she knows more than most about giving a good presentation on how scientists should [..] Read complete article Visit Stephen Schneider, RIP

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ThoughtsWho knew? in Creationism
18-Jul-2010Shorter PZ Myers: Backlash? Harming the cause? Where?: Simplicity is preferable to science.Let us accept, arguendo that this post is poorly written. So what? Does that mean it's wrong? When did PZ Myers ? the scourge of framing ? come to defend the notion that science discussions are best evaluated based on their presentation rather than their content? [..] Read complete article Visit Who knew?

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ThoughtsProlegomena to any future sociology of New Atheism in Creationism
16-Jul-2010The back and forth here in comments and at Jason Rosenhouse's blog has been interesting and stimulating in the last few days. The question of how the rise of New Atheism will or has changed public attitudes towards evolution, towards religion, and towards atheism/atheists are all important questions that have extracted gallons of ink from a lot of bloggers and book authors. But to date, I kno [..] Read complete article Visit Prolegomena to any future sociology of New Atheism

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ThoughtsIt's time for? in Creationism
15-Jul-2010?hypothesis testing! To recap, Jason Rosenhouse, who I love like a brother, put up a post using a poll from VCU and data from Gallup polling to address a hypothesis about "New Atheists," a hypothesis he attributes broadly to the critics of "New Atheism." He's since clarified (in a comment pledging not to reply further here, alas) that he was thinking of a comment by Michael Ruse that N [..] Read complete article Visit It's time for?
ThoughtsPolling creation/evolution in Creationism
15-Jul-2010Attention conservation notice: 3000 words about how smart people who ought to know better are reading way too much into a poll. Last May, NCSE reported on a poll on evolution conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University. The results were, to my eye, in line with most of the other polling out there, so I never wrote about it here, other than a passing mention in a post about my WaPo re [..] Read complete article

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Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

Simple questions for stupid questioners
Disco. president Bruce Chapman wonders: It is not clear why the number of academic freedom cases seem to be increasing. Is it because the iron hand of ideological conformity is squeezing professors more tightly? Or is it because more subjects of attack are fighting back in court?Or is it because he's making numbers up from thin air? Might it be not clear that the [..] Read complete article
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Published 27-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Creationism
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Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

Backfiring
An interesting new article today at the Skeptic's Dictionary, explaining the backfire effect. Several recent papers have found that information contradicting people's initial beliefs can actually increase their acceptance of those beliefs. This is true in political contexts and in religious context. In one example, people given false information about a Supreme Court nominee (which [..] Read complete article
Subscribe to Polling creation/evolution
Published 26-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Creationism
Read 1 times. More hits in More articles Backfiring Images about Backfiring
Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

Netroots Nation
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Published 25-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

California whooping cough epidemic
Calitics has the story about that whooping cough epidemic: With whooping cough now at epidemic levels, it's becoming clear that one of the primary culprits is the idiotic trend over the last 10 years of parents, mostly affluent whites, opting out of vaccination out of a baseless fear that the vaccines are unsafe. Read the comments on this post... [..] Read complete article
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Published 20-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
Read 1 times. More hits in More articles California whooping cough epidemic Images about California whooping cough epidemic
Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

#SBFAIL Continues
Yesterday, Bora Zivkovic announced he was leaving ScienceBlogs. This is kinda huge. Bora is as close to a scienceblogging god as any scienceblogger will admit to believing in. He gives every evidence of omnipresence and omniscience about the interplay of science and the internet. He's created many of the ideas that keep the scienceblogging community together, not least the Science Online co [..] Read complete article
Subscribe to Polling creation/evolution
Published 20-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Chatter
Read 1 times. More hits in More articles #SBFAIL Continues Images about #SBFAIL Continues
Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

Stephen Schneider, RIP
In February, at the AAAS meetings in San Diego, Stephen Schneider gave a gangbuster talk about climate change denial. Schneider was energetic, feisty, and absolutely right about the challenges faced by scientists trying to talk to the media. NCSE's Genie Scott, a fellow panelist, came away deeply impressed, and she knows more than most about giving a good presentation on how scientists should [..] Read complete article
Subscribe to Polling creation/evolution
Published 19-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
Read 2 times. More hits in More articles Stephen Schneider, RIP Images about Stephen Schneider, RIP
Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

Who knew?
Shorter PZ Myers: Backlash? Harming the cause? Where?: Simplicity is preferable to science.Let us accept, arguendo that this post is poorly written. So what? Does that mean it's wrong? When did PZ Myers ? the scourge of framing ? come to defend the notion that science discussions are best evaluated based on their presentation rather than their content? [..] Read complete article
Subscribe to Polling creation/evolution
Published 18-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Creationism
Read 2 times. More hits in More articles Who knew? Images about Who knew?
Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

Prolegomena to any future sociology of New Atheism
The back and forth here in comments and at Jason Rosenhouse's blog has been interesting and stimulating in the last few days. The question of how the rise of New Atheism will or has changed public attitudes towards evolution, towards religion, and towards atheism/atheists are all important questions that have extracted gallons of ink from a lot of bloggers and book authors. But to date, I kno [..] Read complete article
Subscribe to Polling creation/evolution
Published 16-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Creationism
Read 3 times. More hits in More articles Prolegomena to any future sociology of New Atheism Images about Prolegomena to any future sociology of New Atheism
Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

It's time for?
CEA estimates of the jobs saved by ARRA - It ?hypothesis testing! To recap, Jason Rosenhouse, who I love like a brother, put up a post using a poll from VCU and data from Gallup polling to address a hypothesis about "New Atheists," a hypothesis he attributes broadly to the critics of "New Atheism." He's since clarified (in a comment pledging not to reply further here, alas) that he was thinking of a comment by Michael Ruse that N [..] Read complete article
Subscribe to Polling creation/evolution
Published 15-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Creationism
Read 0 times. More hits in More articles It Images about It
Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

Polling creation/evolution
Polling data on evolution from Gallup and VCU surveys - Polling creation/evolution Attention conservation notice: 3000 words about how smart people who ought to know better are reading way too much into a poll. Last May, NCSE reported on a poll on evolution conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University. The results were, to my eye, in line with most of the other polling out there, so I never wrote about it here, other than a passing mention in a post about my WaPo re [..] Read complete article
Subscribe to Polling creation/evolution
Published 15-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Creationism
Read 3 times. More hits in More articles Polling creation/evolution Images about Polling creation/evolution
Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

Yoo sighting
Arrest John Yoo street poster - Yoo sighting I saw war criminal John Yoo as I was heading to the gym this morning. Lacking proper equipment, I did not effect a citizen's arrest, but I did give him a stern glare. He [..] Read complete article
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Published 15-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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Thoughts From Kansas Blogger

Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that

Don't be a dick
Over the weekend, the skeptics gathered at James Randi's annual The Amazing Meeting, or TAM. By all accounts, it was a great show. Probably the most buzz came from a talk by Phil Plait, which became known as the "don't be a dick" speech, because, well, he argued that skeptics will be most effective when they aren't dicks. As I wasn't there, I couldn't comment on the speech, but twitte [..] Read complete article
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Published 14-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
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