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Scientific censorship is here

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/04/scientific-censorship-is-here/

Published: February 4, 2025 19:33

It has long been a desire by the Republicans to meddle in science — let’s filter out the results we don’t like. Nature reports that their desire has been made manifest: US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers. The US…

This fuckin’ guy

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/04/this-fuckin-guy/

Published: February 4, 2025 15:54

Here’s one way to convert America to a tyranny: give up on all those ineffective checks and balances in the Constitution by giving immense power to an unelected person with a novel title and no oversight at all. I’m talking about this fucking guy. Elon…

Ignore that amateur prognosticator

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/04/ignore-that-amateur-prognosticator/

Published: February 4, 2025 14:27

I was watching this video — it’s very good, debunking all the nonsense anti-trans bigots regurgitate to justify their bias — when a face popped up at about 12 minutes that I recognized. Hey! That’s Jay Richards! Jay Richards was predicting that in about 5…

Did Weinersmith read my mind?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/04/did-weinersmith-read-my-mind/

Published: February 4, 2025 13:27

I am concerned. I’ve got it under control. It really helped finding the place that was the greatest possible distance from any seacoast. Except that now my obsession has shifted to more accessible multi-limbed invertebrates.

Proud to support DEI

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/04/proud-to-support-dei/

Published: February 4, 2025 13:10

Our university president has spoken on the anti-DEI pronouncements coming from the president and his racist minions. Dear students, faculty and staff, As the federal government continues to propose new policy changes on issues ranging from diversity,…

Sorry, lady scientists, you don’t count

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/03/sorry-lady-scientists-you-dont-count/

Published: February 3, 2025 19:06

Vera Rubin was a famous astronomer who did research on dark matter, and has an observatory named after her. Sadly, though, she was obviously a DEI hire, what with her lady bits and all, and her observatory has been forced to edit their web page describing…

Worse than the New Atheists?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/03/worse-than-the-new-atheists/

Published: February 3, 2025 13:58

We were always in favor of separation of church and state — I still am — and I never cared for these phony Christian charities that were providing evangelical nonsense and calling it genuine aid. But I am compelled to admit that some Christian charities…

Less than two weeks in, and already the creationists are stirring

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/03/less-than-two-weeks-in-and-already-the-creationists-are-stirring/

Published: February 3, 2025 13:34

The regressive politicians are still playing this same stupid game: they hate evolution, but they can’t just switch to stuffing creationism into science curricula (yet), so they instead water down and weaken the science, replacing “evolution” with fuzzy…

How the media fails us

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/03/how-the-media-fails-us/

Published: February 3, 2025 11:08

Many newspapers around the country have refused to publish this Doonesbury cartoon. Why? Because they are owned by chickenshit rich people. Don’t surrender without putting up a fight. That’s how the adjudicated rapist wins.

That is a mighty fragile wrist

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/02/that-is-a-mighty-fragile-wrist/

Published: February 2, 2025 11:20

We have lubed up our mighty door, and it opens and closes much more easily now. Unfortunately, the damage is done, and my wrist is undergoing some fascinating physiological changes. It is now mottled and blotchy, and pain has increased. I may have to pop…

That is a door, a mighty mighty door

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/31/that-is-a-door-a-mighty-mighty-door/

Published: January 31, 2025 13:27

This is the main door to my house. It’s massive. What you can’t see is how thick and heavy it is. This is a door that would stand up to an assault by orcs armed with Grond. In the winter it’s the only door out of the house to a path cleared of snow, so […]

If logic were a horserace, this guy would have lapped himself multiple times

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/30/if-logic-were-a-horserace-this-guy-would-have-lapped-himself-multiple-times/

Published: January 30, 2025 20:06

I suspect most of you don’t read the Answers Research Journal, the hack pseudoscientific journal published by Answers in Genesis to create the illusion that they do actual research. They don’t. And I don’t normally read it myself, but Daniel Phelps sent me…

I guess I’m the last psychic scientist left

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/30/i-guess-im-the-last-psychic-scientist-left/

Published: January 30, 2025 15:54

Rebecca Watson did her yearly roundup of psychic predictions made by her friends, and it seems I’m the only one to make some predictions for 2025. It was easy. I just said a few things that were obvious and trivial, and all the big predictions were dismal…

You can’t blame the spider!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/30/you-cant-blame-the-spider/

Published: January 30, 2025 15:43

Well, this is a fascinating example of spider toxicity. A heroin addict, looking for a cheap high or a weird story to tell her friends, ground up a black widow spider in a little water and…injected it intravenuously. I’ve heard of people eating strange…

I should tidy up more often

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/29/i-should-tidy-up-more-often/

Published: January 30, 2025 00:19

I was cleaning up a pile of stuff, and I found a treasure! That’s me and my son, Alaric, taken in Eugene in about 1984-85, I think. He’d just eaten a sandwich, so his face was a little messy, but that’s OK, I think I’ll keep him.

Soup in spaaaaace!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/29/soup-in-spaaaaace/

Published: January 29, 2025 19:58

The country may be swirling down the drain, but at least we’ve got some interesting news from outer space…even if Nature chose a really misleading title for their article, Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed. Scientists are…

My depressing prophecy

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/29/my-depressing-prophecy/

Published: January 29, 2025 13:33

I’ve been getting reassuring emails from my university to let me know that they have assembled a team to respond to the federal government shut down of NIH and NSF funded research. In case you hadn’t heard, they canceled review panels at NSF and suspended…