Category Archives: Woo

To Conservatives: My Thoughts on McCain-Palin Lies

I was going to post about all the lies from M-P about how you, Joe and Jane American, will be paying higher taxes on damn near everything…which is bullshit. But really, you’re not going to change your mind, are you? … Continue reading

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How To Electrocute a Pickle for God

Just watch.

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Crackers and Stuff

I wasn’t going to comment on this story, but PZ Myers’ take on it is just too good to resist. So, what happens when you take a Eucharist cracker from a Catholic Mass? You apparently get death threats, and what … Continue reading

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Here, have a dish of crazy

Check out this Ames Tribune Letter to the Editor. Just….wow. The whole tapeworm and pig stomach thing is just teh awesmoe.

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Things Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You To Know About “Expelled”

Check it out at Scientific American. Useful for those trying to refute this truly craptacular movie.

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“Expelled”

So I went to have my brains scooped out see “Expelled“. If you’re a regular reader of Pharyngula (which you should be), you are very familiar with all of the old anti-evolution chestnuts trotted out by this film. This is … Continue reading

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“Expelled” Coming to Ames

So the anti-evolution movie “Expelled” is coming to Ames. It will show at the Varsity II on Friday. The cost is $6, and Guillermo Gonzalez, the creationist astronomy professor from ISU (you know, the one who failed to get tenure) … Continue reading

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Calling All Audiophools…

James Randi is offering you a million bucks. Via Slashdot.

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Dr. Dino & Co. Continue to be Slime

According to this article on RichardDawkins.net, Creation Science Evangelism Ministries has been sending false DMCA notices to YouTube to get videos critical of Creation Evangelism Ministries taken down. Rational Response Squad came to the defense of those videos, and now … Continue reading

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Iowa State Gets A Dose of Woo

Check out this Iowa State Daily article. The School of Metaphysics (no link love, mainly because I’m lazy) is coming to the Scheman Building on August 24th with some sort of “Powers of Ten” genuine, New Age woo. It has … Continue reading

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