When I was younger, I remember watching Schoolhouse Rock, a children’s show, explain the legislative process through a simple cartoon featuring a singing bill. The flamboyant bill sang quite eloquently about the political process involved in turning a bill into law, detailing the many congressional votes and potential presidential veto involved in the process. Schoolhouse …
Monthly Archive: June 2009
Jun 05
A New Strategy for Atheism
Everyone knows the stereotype of the village atheist; he’s the loud, brash, vocal iconoclast that derides the religious and probably rapes puppies. Nowadays, the equivalents to the village atheist are popular authors and bloggers like Jerry Coyne, PZ Myers, and Richard Dawkins. Of course, these atheists aren’t exactly violent extremists, at least not compared with …
Jun 05
Acupuncture: An Analysis of an Elaborate Placebo
Most complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities are complete bunk. Among the most mind-numbingly stupid modalities are therapeutic touch (a misleadingly named “therapy” in which a practitioner does not actually touch the patient at all and instead manipulates the “energy field” that hovers about six inches from the patient’s body), homeopathy (a “medicine” that consists …
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