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Two Minutes’ Hating on Evo Psych

Monday, March 1st, 2010

The fundamental premise of evolutionary psychology assumes that human evolution completely stopped with the appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens 200,000 years ago. Discuss.

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Question Time: Glenn Beck’s Parable of the Frog

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

So, earlier today I Twittered™ about Glenn Beck’s ridiculous frog video, which got linked on Skepchick. I was working under the assumption that he actually killed a frog on TV, which seems crazy: but, hey, it’s Glenn Beck. Anyway, various people have pointed out that he appears to grab a rubber frog and that you can’t actually see anything go into the pot of boiling water, two things that I missed from the low quality YouTube version.

Since I have to leave for karaoke with Rebecca Watson in a few minutes, I’ll just ask a question instead of writing up my full thoughts on the matter: does pretending to boil a fake frog on TV rather than actually boiling a live frog on TV make Glenn Beck any less crazy?

Discuss amongst yourselves.

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A Question from Matt Lauer

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

I didn’t create this “Questions” post category to not use it. Anyway, today’s question comes from Matt Lauer:

Is it worse if some of this opposition to President Obama is fueled by outright racism, or is it worse if some liberals, in an attempt to defend President Obama and his plans, invoke the charge of racism to discredit the critics?

The former, Matt. Being racist is worse than pointing out when other people are acting like racists. (Incidentally, this is exactly what his guest says.)

Thanks for playing, folks! See you next time, when the question will be, “Is it worse if Hitler exterminates a shitload of Jews, or is it worse if some guy calls Godwin’s Law in an argument?”

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Question of the Day: String Theory

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Why does string theory make people so hysterically angry? Were polemicists in 1908 writing lengthy screeds decrying Einstein for being “not even wrong”? Did anyone ever metaphorically egg Schrödinger’s house? I get that some people find Michio Kaku annoying for his triumphalism and kneww-jerk defensiveness, but nobody condemns quantum computing or nanotech research just because Ray Kurzweil is a shrieking moron.

Ok, so that was three questions. Whatever. Discuss amongst yourselves, all three of you.

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