Gwangi Valley - Lost Blog of the Gwangi
Where dinosaurs are extinct, crystals aren’t magic and the Earth is more than 6,000 years old.
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Beware: Non-apologetic skepticism, science and rational thinking rules here.
Do you believe the Loch Ness monster is real, that there may be a hidden valley full of living dinosaurs somewhere, that pads on your feet will draw out 'toxins' or that crystals will heal you? Well, if you do, no matter if you're a Raelian or a thalian or a Baptist... you're kind of an idiot. There? Does that set the tone of this blog well enough? The 21st century is no place for hoky ancient mysticism and old wives' tales. Grow up or grow extinct.
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
education, pseudoscience, science, skepticism | No Comments »
“Natural”. It’s thrown around every day on television and in magazines and… well, on Oprah and the like quite a lot. Mostly it’s used as a thinly veiled epithet aimed at the pharmaceutical industry. While I have no problem with bashing corporations who look more fondly on profits than on people, that does not, then, [...]
Monday, November 17th, 2008
education, pop culture, pseudoscience, quackery, science, skepticism, society | No Comments »
Preface: As often happens lately, it’s the podcasters at The Skeptics Guide to the Universe that get me off my butt and finally writing about something I’ve been meaning to get to. This entry is such a case. Their recent guest, Paul Offit, had a great Op-Ed piece in the NY Times regarding the controversial [...]
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
education, politics, pseudoscience, science, society | No Comments »
Stay your hand, my conservative peers, lest you pull what they used to call a ‘boner’ and, here in the future, we call a ‘fuck up’. A vote for your ‘maverick’ senator from Arizona is also a vote for his young Earth creationist running mate. A running mate who could very well end up in [...]
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
education, pseudoscience, quackery, science, skepticism, society, supernatural | No Comments »
Scientists, skeptics and other rational thinkers are often accused of being “closed-minded” or “not open to new ideas” when they refute, debunk or otherwise remain skeptical of a belief or claim. And, likely just as often, the accuser is someone arguing in favour of their own brand of mysticism or pseudo-science. Or, at the very [...]
Friday, April 18th, 2008
education, science, society, technology | No Comments »
REMINDER: While this is, in general, a science-based blog, it is still my own opinions and reactions to the subject at hand. And I have a dirty mouth. You have been warned.
First, I should define First World for those of you who don’t spend much time talking about this sort of thing. You’re undoubtedly familiar [...]