Oh geez, Seed Magazine EIC and Peter Principle posterboy Adam Bly is talking again, and we, like untold dozens of others, are listening—mostly to see if he actually says anything relevant, or just repeats his little catchphrase “science is culture” over and over again like a less-dapper Rain Man with echolalia.
Bly’s latest editor’s letter was […]

On November 1 British medical journal The Lancet published a series of papers deconstructing global sexual and reproductive health issues, with an emphasis on the subjugation of developing nations to ideologically implacable American policies such as the president’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Gag Rule. As bleak as the outlook sometimes is, […]

Schadenfreude alert: Richard Dawkins’s foaming atheo-fundie rant, “The God Delusion,” is getting some less-than-glowing reviews from *gasp* prominent liberal intellectuals. The Wired treatment is the most surprising - reporter Gary Wolf spends a couple thousand words trying, really hard, to just give in and throw his lot in with Dawkins & Co, since he (like, […]

You thought all those skandies who live up north were a bunch of socialist do-gooders, didn’t you? Well now they’re killing endangered whales again, mostly because they’re tasty:

Iceland just broke a global moratorium on commercial whaling, killing an endangered fin whale for the first time since the 1980s, local media reported Sunday.

Three cheers for Iceland […]

Deep inside the atheist/liberal echo chamber, it’s easy to get preoccupied with hatin’ on the religious fanatics whose holy books explicitly urge them to either convert or kill you (and, this just in, are exempt from federal taxes).
But it’s important to remember that there is another group, even more powerful, that hates science: Corporate America.
Exhibit […]