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That was me, fainting from astonishment. Could it be trooooooo…?
I did not make that headline up for the purposes of this post. No, that is actually, really the headline of this article from MSNBC Health.
Bisexuality.
I tend to subscribe to the theory that human beings* are innately bisexual as a group, [...]

(drumroll, please!)
William Saletan of Slate, on race and IQ.
Five months ago, I wrote a series on race, genes, and intelligence.
You sure did. I remember it well. It inspired one of my very first blog posts ever.
Everything about it hurt: the research, the writing, the reactions, the regrets.
I agree that your research and [...]

I saw this in the aisle at Sunflower market, an organic grocery store that operates around this here parts (this, at an organic grocery store? shock!).
“Guess what’s at the center of the universe? It’s you! Also, let’s talk about Deepak Chopra and those wacky atheists, eh?”
I have, on occasion, the urge to bonk people with [...]

how does he sleep at night?

Last week, I finished watching “The Business of Being Born“. Ricki Lake did this documentary to highlight the differences in treatment she had with her two children. One was done at the hospital, and ended up as a Cesarean. One was at home, with a midwife, and it was videotaped.
Interspaced [...]

It is really really bad to do pharmaceutical experiments on soldiers. It’s obviously wrong to perform such experiments on anyone without really strong checks for safety and informed consent.
But, y’know, if the experiments have already been done, we may as well admit that the results are, in some cases, basically hilarious.

“But one hour and ten [...]

Welcome to China! We hope you enjoy your stay during the Olympics.

Huh? What’s that? Those guns? Don’t mind them.
Sigh. Fine, fine, let’s talk about the guns. No, they’re not there to mow down Olympic torch protesters. Or Tibetan nationalists. [Though if any such offenders were [...]

Flying shards of glass and everything. I was so worried about the economy and BAM! FINALLY somebody, somewhere is aiming to do something about it!
Study: Single parents cost taxpayers $112 billion
That sure jumped out at me. Clearly, first off, single parents aren’t taxpayers! Or the headline would read [...]

Over at Boundless Webzine, Focus on the Family’s source of hip, Candice Watters is reminded by the New York Times to warn science to beware, bee–waaarrreeeeeee!!!!!!!! That is, beware to continue to be aware that scientific ethics are a good thing.
Also, did you know that in the past, scientists were sometimes wrong? And [...]

I promised you guys a polymer lecture, and I had a good boring one about polymer stabilized systems all mapped out in my brain. Lucky for you, I spent the day engaged in some very cutting-edge research on polymers, or at least that’s how we explained it to our boss when he came into [...]

Via Kevin at Slant Truth, a pop psych article is in dire need of more fisking. Purporting to share with us 10 “politically incorrect” “truths” about “human nature” by justifying all your favorite stereotypes, it’s quite a delight of an article. Kevin himself was only able to get past the introduction and first [...]

From the people who brought you Libertarian Troll Bingo, it’s time for a spot of gender essentialism!

Now you can back up all of your sexist ideas with something that sounds a bit like science. Feel free to tell me that I’m just going against nature here.
With thanks, as always, to zingerella and apperception.