Oh yeah. The Palace of Fine Arts. 8:00 pm. Me, Ariela, and Richard Dawkins. Yeah okay, there were hundreds of other people there, and we were but two of the attendees, but we did get in line to ask questions at the microphone.
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Oct
23
2006
23
2006
Monday Madness: Hovind = Bovine feces
posted in Creationism/ID, Monday Madness, Religion Comments OffKent Hovind, who calls himself “Dr. Dino,” is in trouble with the IRS again. First it was bankruptcy, then he sued the IRS three times and had all three of his lawsuits thrown out. Now, the IRS is after him on 58 counts of tax evasion. Almost $500,000 in taxes owed to them, from the $5,000,000 he took in for his “ministry.”
Hovind, however, contests the charges, saying that “he and his employees work for God, are paid by God and therefore aren’t subject to taxation.” Originally, he claimed that he was ignorant of tax laws and had no idea he was doing anything wrong. “I still don’t understand what I’m being charged for and who is charging me.”
That’s two counts of bullshit.
My station manager, Jeff Shaw, just passed along a snippet of an email conversation he was having with another radio show host in town:
The guy doing a show at ~6:20 on Thursday was doing a good job. Reminded me of our show.
Seriously, tho, it was good.
Let’s see… Thursday, around 6:20 pm… Read More…
PZ Myers just tried out a website that tells you how many people have your name. Apparently, there are 1,184 other Paul Myers out there. So I decided to try out my name, Karl Mogel. Guess how many Karl Mogels there are out there besides me? Read More…
Scientists recently came out and reported that we don’t have giant bugs today (like we did in 300 m.y. ago) because there’s not enough oxygen in the atmosphere. The reason given was that the tracheae that distribute air to the tissues of insects would have to get too large to compensate, so only smaller bugs can survive. It made a lot of sense.
Well, now Google Maps has shown that there is a giant species of Dermaptera Thysanoptera (better pictures) living in Germany, no doubt, feasting on detritis such as human beings running away screaming. Once again, science is proven wrong and leading geologists now question the fossil record and suggest that the Earth is less than 400 years old to account for this discrepancy. The picture is clearer than any comparable picture of “Nessie” and more identifiable than any of the “dinosaurs” that have washed up on the shore. It shows that the “ancient world” was not that ancient, and we may find a whole colony of dinosaurs fulfilling various anthropocentric roles as vaccuum cleaners, cranes, showers and such a la The Finstones in the nearby German city of Kapfenburg. Yes, this is the smoking gun that will finally put the nail in the coffin of other cheesy metaphors that creationists like to use all the time.
(Hat tip to greyweirdo, whoever you are.)
I just uploaded another backlogged episode of my show in my rapid effort to get all these awesome Mindcast shows with interviews up for people to listen to, and I just noticed a couple funny things. On my show, I often address the wild and crazy ways that pseudo-scientists rationalize new discoveries that make their lives more difficult. At times, the medicine cranks, creationists, food nuts, global-warming-is-either-nonexistent-or-not-a-problem pundits, aliens-are-here (or on Mars) pareidolia punks, I’m a magician but not a magician and I did/didn’t predict the super bowl mental cases, and other assorted snake oil salespersons can seem overwhelming. But there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
I’m more popular than them. Read More…
Oct
16
2006
16
2006
Monday Madness: Delicious Denialist Dumbnuttery
posted in Health, Monday Madness, Pseudoscience Comments OffBring us your tired, your poor, your masses hungering for a slice of stupidity. It’s time for Monday Madness.
Tara Smith at Aetology was treated with one of the most inane statements known to medical science, from a doubter of that biological dogma known as the Germ Theory of Disease. You know, that diseases are caused by infectious agents, like the flu, HIV, E coli O157:H7, and whooping cough.
The immune system is just a theoretical representation but warmongering germs have no biological reality. Read More…