Saw this on my news-feed tonight. If I ever take myself out, it’s going to be in a jogging suit in one of these asshole’s offices. Exercise is good for many reasons, and from what I’ve gleaned, we honestly know very little about why it’s good. If you want a good textbook on the science,…
Category: Science
How Chocolate Milk Epitomizes Corruption in Academia
Academia is absolutely rife with corruption, and it’s a dirty, disgusting secret I’d love to let you in on. Somewhere along the lines, a maternal authority figure should have advised you against crying over spilled milk. It’s a great little aphorism of stoicism, but in the case of an incident at the University of Maryland,…
No Evidence that the Holocaust is Heritable
What makes a man? This is the perennial question of mankind. In recent years, advancements in biology and medicine have given us a thousand new ways to ponder that question. We may have stopped looking for a literal soul, but the line between nature and nurture is a fun one to skim. Our genetic code,…
Dumb Hicks Think We’re Going to Run Out of Sun!
People who live in the rural south are all a bunch of dumbasses, amirite? Did you hear about these stupid hicks who banned solar panels in their town because they think it will drain the sun? What a bunch of uneducated morons! Figure 1. How you are imagining the entire town in question. An article…
Commentary on: 15 Facts About Sea Level Rise That Should Scare the S^*# Out of You
More in my series of “Shit like this is why I am sympathetic to climate change skeptics” and “maybe the 1st Amendment should not apply to journalists”. Bullshit clickbait is bullshit clickbait, not a productive discussion on science and science policy. Holy shit, how is anyone at CNN okay with this title? This is just…
Men in STEM Are So Sexist They Don’t Even Know It!
Or: females and university faculty have a small bias regarding sex and institution when reading psychology abstracts, and male university faculty in STEM departments slightly more skeptical than females about abstracts that accuse men of being sexist “Even With Hard Evidence Of Gender Bias In STEM Fields, Men Don’t Believe It’s Real”, reads the…
I Fucking Love Phrenology
“Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery a hundred-sixty years ago.” – Mr. Smithers “Of course you’d say that; you have the brainpan of stagecoach-tilter.” – Mr. Burns To get to the part where I talk about phrenology, skip the first 1,600 words or so. On the off chance someone over 30 stumbled upon this,…