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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The danger of snark - A Man With A PhD

Quoth the Rocketboom: Nevermore:
[Via Bad Astronomy]

Rocketboom was one of the original video blogs, taking current geek news and making fun of it.

Sometimes though they're the victim of their own snark. On April 29th they posted this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A337HrpbBoU

The thing is, that whole thing I posted about the Shuttle image being faked? Yeah, Rocketboom, oops. So ...

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As mentioned Poe's Law states "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

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Ken Layne said it best - A Man With A PhD

Just Keep Calling It Fact-Checking And Someday They'll Believe You:
[Via The Loom]

Zachary Smith at Talking Points Memo, among others, notes that the Washington Post editorial page editor is still claiming that George Will's many misrepresentations about global warming were subject to "careful fact-checking," some two months after many people showed they were anything but--including some who explained the errors in the ...

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In 2001, Ken Layne famously said " We can fact-check your ass!" In fact, people on the web just hate it when information, which is easily checked, is wrong. And when an organizations continually tries to claim that they did careful fact-checking, when it is so obviously proved that they did not.. well, let's just say their credibility takes a big hit.

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How can they call it science? - A Man With A PhD

by Pirate_J

AIG Creation AntiScience Fair:

[Via The Panda's Thumb]

Last month I was a judge at a regional science fair for middle- and high-school students, and it was great to see aisle after aisle of smart and hard-working kids doing interesting and careful science. A few weeks later, at a Science Cafe where I was presenting, I had the chance to talk with (and coach a little) two of them who are going to nationals. Those kids are bright shining examples of what we want public education to produce.

On the other hand, thereâo[dot accent]s the creation science fair. PZ has recently posted on a creation science fair in Minnesota, but now theyâo[dot accent]re going big time: Ken Hamâo[dot accent]s Creation Museum is hosting one next year. (Added in edit: I see PZ has posted on this one already this morning, too.)

A Creation Science Fair? Since when do they care about science? They care about the 'factual' basis of the Bible. If sceince fits that, fine. If not, ignore it or fight it.

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