William Saletan, Slate’s science columnist and the only writer we know who could make an entire article about co-ed anal action into a snore, dazzles us again today.
Topic: Intelligent Design. Crashingly obvious insight: It’s not testable!
Waitaminnit…is THAT whut all the dang fuss is about? Lemme bookmark this here inter-site.
Hell, if you can […]

We had distinctly different expectations when we clicked on this naughtily-worded press release. (Don’t act like you don’t know what we mean.)
Alas, it’s just something unintelligible about fruit flies. Damn our dirty minds.
[Opening the O-box | EurekAlert]
[What’s With That Hot Overstock.com Ad? | Slate]

Un F-ing believable. The same Senator James Inhofe who deemed climate change a “hoax” has decided to call Michael Crichton, whose scientific qualifications include the ability to write thoughtful science fiction and, later, meaningless pabulum, before a Senate committee on climate change.
No need to wait with baited breath to see what this master of poorly-plotted […]

British science eminence and equal-opportunity faith-hater Richard Dawkins seems to have found a new cause. In his latest essay for Prospect, he spends the whole time railing against some nasty addictive stuff called “Gerin oil (or Geriniol to give it its scientific name)”. He says the 9/11 hijackers were high on it, yet governments the […]

Scopes II takes a turn for the dramatic.
Judge John E. Jones III cautioned that the impromptu display of the survival of the fittest, introduced as ‘Exhibit A’, would not affect his opinion on the question of whether intelligent design may be taught as an alternative to evolution in a public school science class.
Ah, that […]

Normally we enjoy taking the piss out of correlation-fetishizing “social science”. But this is something we can get behind: a British study linking America’s rampant Jesus-freakdom to its (collectively speaking) skeezed-out love tunnel.

“Gregory Paul said that rates of gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US were up to 300 times higher than in less devout democratic […]

Thanks to the Dalai Lama, the world got just what it needed: another brain-flexing, pseudo-philosophical epistle on the confluence of science and religion, but this time through the lens of politically disinterested (it would seem) Buddhist introspection. While not as unabashedly daffy as some evangelical attempts to co-opt science, more than a few stabs at […]

While weighing our, oh, 8 quillion options for mocking the purported “rebirth” of science-n-culture mag Seed next month, we stumbled upon this interview with the jackanapes behind Cracked–that erstwhile Mad manque, which is also relaunching.
To demonstrate the painfully apt convergence between these two publishing albatrosses, we’ve strategically replaced the key Cracked-related terms in the […]

Ok, say you’re some poor American trapped in, I don’t know, a big hole filled with scorpions or lions or something, and your only two hopes for escape are with a pack of morally ambiguous, arms-dealing Russians or on the Space Shuttle. Ha, you’re fucking dead!
Such is the newest imbroglio (minus the wildlife) to embarrass […]