Archive for the ‘Anti-Science Crazies’ Category

The precipitous decline of a once-great newspaper. Today at the Wall Street Journal we find an appalling article titled Climategate 2.0, by one of Britain’s most deranged and dishonest climate change deniers, James Delingpole — who often appears on the crazed radio show of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Every sentence in this first paragraph is [...]

Obama, Assassination, and the Antichrist Conspiracy Chip Berlet on the connections Randall Gross Nov 19, 2011 [Link: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/11/19/153758/35/Front_Page/Obama_Assassination_and_the_Antichrist_Conspiracy] Even if the shooter is a thorough crackpot his delusions did not form in a vacuum. Hate sites like Prison Planet, Atlas Shrugs, and Farrah’s World Net Daily all do most of the heavy lifting for these [...]

What to expect from a Rick Perry administration: active suppression of science Regular readers know I am no fan of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry. The reasons for this are legion, including his stance on evolution and global warming. Now there’s evidence it’s even worse than I thought: The Guardian is reporting that Governor Rick [...]

The Republicans’ war on science and reason  By  Katrina vanden Heuvel, Published: October 25 Last month, Washington Post columnist Steve Pearlstein wrote that if you wanted to come up with a bumper sticker that defined the Republican Party’s platform it would be this: “Repeal the 20th century. Vote GOP.” With their unrelenting attempts to slash [...]

A quick and entertaining reminder of the type of uncivilized, unsophisticated, irrational, superstitious and anti-science lunatics – typified by Michele Bachmann – that are presently fronting the GOP. Stephen Colbert Explains Michele Bachmann’s Claim That Natural Disasters Were a Warning From God [VIDEO] By: Don Deane  | Comedy Central On ‘The Colbert Report’ last night, [...]

Make no mistake, Israel‘s existence is under threat TheDrum By ABC’s Ben Knight Updated September 24, 2011 12:17:39 Photo: Israel’s ultra-orthodox Jews don’t work, don’t pay taxes and don’t serve in the army. Not surprisingly, it’s a pretty sore point. Reuters: Gil Cohen Magen Map: Israel Let’s imagine for a moment that at this time next [...]

More Coulter Stupidity on Evolution by Ed Brayton Not content to show her complete ignorance of evolutionary biology once, Ann Coulter doubles down with yet another screed that would get her flunked by a competent high school science teacher. She begins with this unintentionally amusing statement: More people know the precepts of kabala than know [...]

Evolution is a Jewish conspiracy by PZ Myers The essay starts off stupidly enough. In 1867 Karl Marx dedicated DasKapital to Charles Darwin. Actually, no, he didn’t. It’s a fairly common lie in creationist circles, though, just like the others sprinkled throughout the story. Modern creation science is led by an array of top-flight Ph.D. [...]