Americans are ignorant fools about evolution
For New Year’s Day, I’m republishing the top 10 articles I wrote in 2013. Well, actually top 9, plus 1 from 2012 that just keeps going. #5. This article was published on 31 July 2013, and has had...
View ArticleMashing up the Walking Dead and science denialism
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I am really impatient with science deniers, so I saw something that will allow me to mash up two of my favorite subjects – the...
View ArticleMike Adams invents Tribeca vaccines conspiracy theory
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I thought I was done with the whole Robert De Niro/Tribeca Film Festival/Andrew Wakefield fraud documentary. De Niro pulled the...
View ArticleMike Adams of Natural News – nuclear stupidity about Gorski
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. This story is about Mike Adams of Natural News, considered the number one lunatic of the pseudoscience and anti-science pushing...
View ArticleJohn Oliver promotes real science – a comedian gets it right
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. On Sunday evening (8 May 2016), John Oliver, the English comedian and political satirist, talked about science and how we should...
View ArticleScience denialism and pseudoscience – left vs. right politics
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. On a recent episode of his HBO political talk show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher repeated his contention that the Republican...
View ArticleDonald Trump and vaccines – he’s wrong
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. Donald Trump is technically the Republican candidate in the 2016 election for President of the United States. There’s a lot that he...
View ArticleClimate change denier is accurate – AP stylebook disagrees
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I’m going to guess that a discussion of the AP stylebook isn’t a typical subject discussed in a skeptic blog. But the AP is worried...
View ArticleVaccine skeptics – let’s be clear, they are really science deniers
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I get so tired of this, the press describing vaccine deniers as “vaccine skeptics.” I wish the press would stop doing this, but no...
View ArticleVaccine skeptics – it doesn’t mean what they think it means
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.The term “vaccine skeptics” is not only used by anti-vaxxers to describe themselves but also it is employed by some of the popular...
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