Congrats to Phil Plait 4 Aug 2008 Phil, of Bad Astronomy fame, has been offered and accepted the chairmanship of James Randi’s Educational Foundation. I think that’s a great choice by Randi and a great honour for Phil. Couldn’t happen to a better guy. General Science
Creationism and Intelligent Design The heuristics of antiscience 25 Feb 2011 I’m crowdsourcing here, to ensure that I don’t say anything more stupid than usual. I’m writing a piece for a forthcoming book on antiscience, edited by Massimo Pigliucci. I want to consider the heuristics of antiscientific thinking, but, not being a psychologist or cognitive researcher, may be missing some obvious… Read More
Biology On Hauser 20 Jul 201120 Jul 2011 Marc Hauser, the primatologist psychologist at Harvard who recently was accused of mistreating evidence and graduate students, has resigned. I am in two minds about this. His work, although I am unconvinced by some of it, was very important, and he was good at communicating to the lay reader (including… Read More
Evolution New work on the origin of life 11 Jun 2008 I can’t say much about this without reading the paper in the company of Somebody Who Knows About Chemistry, but Jack Szostak’s team at the Harvard Medical School has done some interesting looking work on the self assembly of lipids into miscelles that could contain DNA reactions. What is new… Read More
For many years now I have been nursing the angst that is born of wondering what was going to happen when Randi stopped creaking along the path of enlightenment and abandoned us all to a world of darkness and obscurantism. Now I can sleep in peace.
For many years now I have been nursing the angst that is born of wondering what was going to happen when Randi stopped creaking along the path of enlightenment and abandoned us all to a world of darkness and obscurantism. Now I can sleep in peace.
I don’t know why James Randi gets and entire foundation for education and I had to take out loans or mine. It’s not fair, man.
I don’t know why James Randi gets and entire foundation for education and I had to take out loans or mine. It’s not fair, man.