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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Now that he did so well in Iowa, The Reverend Pat Robertson doesn't want to be called a 'former television evangelist' anymore. He told NBC's Tom Brokaw in no uncertain terms that such a 'slur' was the height of 'religious bigotry. And he's right. Who'd want their sister to marry a television evangelist? But how shall we ace newsmen describe him instead? I've given the matter a great deal of thought, and I think the fairest to all concerned is 'former hemorrhoid healer.' This refers, of course, to the former hemorrhoid healer's celebrated, videotaped sermon to his congregation back in 1981, when he cried: 'Satan has gone! God has just healed somebody! A hernia has been healed! Several people are being healed of hemorrhoids and varicose veins! People with flat feet! God is doing just great things to you!' … 'Former hurricane deflector' struck me as macho, and most voters would probably like a president who could deflect hurricanes. But Hurricane Gloria, which he deflected back in 1985 to save his broadcasting station in Virginia Beach, slammed into Long Island and Boston instead, doing $320 million worth of damage.
[Arthur Hoppe, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 February 1988]
September 30, 2006
Category: Politics
Don't you dare diss Kip Hawley! He's head of the Transportation Security Administration, and he's awfully touchy, you see. His minions also take it personally when you say unkind things about him. P.S. Kip Hawley is an idiot. Spread the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:44 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
Nick Matzke has compiled all the data on hominin cranial capacities into a single chart: I think I can see a pattern there, can you? He also has data on body size and brain size over there, take a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:19 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Here's another review of Dawkins' The God Delusion(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). It's unbelievable, as if the critic hadn't actually read the book. Here's the hed/dek: Dawkins needs to show some doubt Scientists work in a field full of uncertainties. So how can...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:22 PM • 63 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Art
Charity and art come together in a project to create structures out of canned food, which are then donated to food banks. I fear I don't have a big enough supply of canned food to pull this off at...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:09 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
Here's a prediction for you: the image below is going to appear in a lot of textbooks in the near future. (click for larger image)Confocal image of septuple in situ hybridization exhibiting the spatial expression of Hox gene transcripts in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:33 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 29, 2006
Category: Creationism
Earlier this week, I had a chance to talk with Randy Olson about this business of communication good science to the public. I've had some disagreements with his strategies before; I think we resolved them a bit. What I had...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:02 PM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
The work of Craig McClain (of Deep-Sea News) is written up in Science Daily—it's cool stuff. Also notable is that it is illustrated with a photo of a giant isopod…one of those creatures Kent Hovind calls a trilobite, and uses...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:07 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Note the headline on our student newspaper. It refers to the fact that our football team played Trinity Bible College's and beat them by a damnable 67 to zip…and that we've probably got a smart-ass heretic on the newspaper...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:27 PM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
Forgive me, but I'll inflict a few more zebrafish videos on you. YouTube makes this fun and easy, and I'm going to be giving my students instruction in video micrography next week, so it's good practice. This is a more...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:00 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals
We've harvested a fine collection of links this week: Circus of the Spineless #25 (there's a tattoo parlor I want to visit!) I and the Bird #33 Carnival of Education #86 Skeptics' Circle #44 Friday Ark #106 Carnival of the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:18 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
