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Watch this video, where former Republican Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist, totally schools talk show host, atheist and Richard Dawkins Award winner, Bill Maher, on the efficacy of flu vaccines. It turns out that despite being a famous non-theist, Maher is a true believer of wacky alternative medicine claims, including the anti-vaccination nonsense that’s been [...]

Yup. Nodded my head in agreement all the way through this. h/t to Matty the Greek.

This week’s episode of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio featured a discussion inspired by last Friday’s episode of Dollhouse, in which a woman who was murdered is brought “back to life” in the body of Eliza Dushku because she’d had the foresight to scan all of her thoughts and memories before she was killed and then after her [...]

…I just don’t believe in God or ghosts or therapeutic touch. See below (Thanks, Alex!)

So apparently funny game show host, part time actor, bad economist and really laughably lame Intelligent Design apologist Ben Stein was recently scheduled to give the commencement address at UVM this spring. This would be an occasion for me to rise up in furious scientific indignation and demand that Stein be disinvited, except a certain [...]

I’ve been thinking about this “war on Christmas” garbage today. I think there are a couple of things going on that are resulting in this stupidity and I’d like to throw these thoughts out there for you to consider this holiday season…
First, there is an actual fight that is being waged, though it’s not against [...]

Boing Boing linked to this atheistic sign on display beside a nativity scene in front of an Olympia, Washington government building. The comments under the post are pretty entertaining, particularly one from “Tenn,” who writes, “I think religion is great for certain people, it gives them a reason to wake up in the morning. Like [...]

Cory Doctorow linked to Emily’s dissected frog after Neat-o-rama linked to it and now, famed biology blogger, PZ Myers, has blogged the frog (UPDATE: well, technically, he blogged about her dissected rat, but that doesn’t rhyme)! Myers is the blogger who was kicked out of the screening of Expelled back in March (but they [...]