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YouTube – The Lame Link Lemur – – Not Evolution. (via Reddit)
Man makes a video and puts it on the internet articulating his views with magnificent irony. Nothing new there, but it’s pretty funny. I like the buildup – there’s plenty of clues he’s an idiot thrown in with some barely correct scepticism, then some [...]
BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Malay court hearing ‘Allah’ case. (via Reddit)
Trademark wars between Christians and Muslims. Muslim clerics (and the government as well, apparently) are worried that the use of Allah to refer to God in Christian churches may confuse some of their own muslim consumers worshipers into praying in the [...]
http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf #
Now in the cinema instead of ads telling us “you wouldn’t steal a car”, we get ads thanking us for our attendance. MPAA starting to get it? #
I keep breaking things with the permalinks on my blog. Now I’m deleting blog post tweets and wrecking pingback links. weeeeeeeeeee #
MPAA suggests teachers videotape TVs instead of ripping DVDs. Seriously.. (via Digg)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy? – By Arthur Allen – Slate Magazine. (via Digg)
UPDATE: Amanda Peet is a celebrity that makes sense.
It seems celebrity wisdom is still overriding those shaky/shady/conspiratorial institutions that conduct evidence based medicine and scientific research. But what do they know? They don’t have a child with autism.
So [...]
The Answer to the Gay Marriage Debate– In Under 150 Words « RagingTantrum.com (via Reddit)
I have heard this argument before (I can’t remember where exactly) but it’s very well made here, in less than 150 words.
Here’s the most logical solution to the gay marriage debate– in less than 150 words:
The word “marriage” is removed from government vocabulary. [...]
James Randerson: Rash actions and dire consequences | Comment is free | The Guardian.
Another example of how the antivax crusade (plus media frenzy plus parents panicking in their ignorance) is causing harm to innocent babies. Autism from vaccinations is not proven or even causally linked in any way. In fact in more recent studies it is disproven.
Increased risk [...]