In a recent post about the meme at left, entitled It’s OK to be Ignorant, Just Keep it to Yourself, I wrote “If you agree, you’re ignorant when it comes to biology.” This type of stupidity has a fantastic level …
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Sexuality Is Normally Politicized, But Here’s Some Science on the Matter for Those Who May Care
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It’s OK to be Ignorant, Just Keep it to Yourself
Just saw this on Facebook. What I would say: 1) If you agree, you’re ignorant when it comes to biology. 2) If you agree and you post this to social medial, you’re both ignorant and mean. #1 and #2 are …
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Keeping Us Stupid
At this point, no one knows the ultimate fate of American institutions like National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). To be fair, we can only speculate as to the reason that they’re under attack by the …
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The Media Has Lied . . .
I know, right? For example, take the New York Times, founded in the 1850s. All of a sudden, in 2016, after more than 150 years, they started lying with just horrible consistency that Donald Trump became the only credible source …
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Trump and the Truth
The average price of gas in the U.S. today is $3.165 per gallon. This is a fact, not an opinion. However, as shown at left, that means precisely zero to Trump and his followers, for whom the truth has no …
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Electricity from Rain? Can’t Believe It?
Well, it’s real. It’s call piezoelectricity. It’s the phenomenon where certain materials generate an electric charge when subjected to mechanical stress. Now, of course, the stress caused by falling raindrops is extremely small, so we’re talking about amounts of electrical …
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Understanding High School Chemistry Can Help You Spot BS
The meme here is total BS. How do I know? CO2 is one of the products (stuff on the right side of the arrow) in CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O + energy, the combustion of methane, which is …
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What It Takes to be an Anti-Vaxxer (or Climate Denier, Flat-Earther, etc.)
The author of the meme here posits that narcissism is required to be an anti-vaxxer, because without it, people would simply listen to the scientists who have spent their lives studying the subject. True. But the same could be said …
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Trump and Other Pathological Liars
Trump isn’t the only pathological liar I’ve known in my life, and I’m sure most people can say that as well. What makes them “pathological?” They lie when there is no reason to, when there is nothing to be gained. Does …
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Many Americans Have Lost Their Capacity to Think
This guy doesn’t seem to remember that: Trump was the U.S. president for the first year of the COVID pandemic, and The United States is one of 206 sovereign nations on Earth, each of which had its own response. He …
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