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• Announcing the concern troll

  Published: July 17, 2007, 9:43 pm

  Tags: About, Conservatism, Debunking

  The purpose of this blog is to assail, refute and debunk American conservatism, its superficial manifestations and its philosophical underpinnings, in order to hasten its ultimate demise. All done in the spirit of enlightened, biting and - I hope - humorous pamphleteering.The "concern troll" moniker comes from the preferred rhetorical tactic of

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• Creationist drivel from a (sob) Computer Science Professor [Good Math, Bad Math]

  Published: September 13, 2007, 11:11 pm

  Tags: Debunking Creationism

  Much to my professional shame, PZ recently pointed out David Plaisted, a Computer Science professor at the University of North Carolina, who has an anti-evolution screed on his university website. Worse, it's typical creationist drivel, which anyone with half a brain should know is utter rubbish. But worst of all, this computer scientist's

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• Book Review: The Faith Equation (part 1) [Good Math, Bad Math]

  Published: October 16, 2007, 11:06 pm

  Tags: Debunking Creationism

  A few weeks ago, I received an email about a new book, "The Faith Equation", by Marvin Bittinger. Bittinger is an author of math textbooks - including, I think, my first calculus text. The book is supposed to be Bittenger's explanation of how mathematics validates christianity. Needless to say, I asked for a review copy - this is something right

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• Further Debunking the 'War Zone' Myth

  Published: March 27, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Further, Debunking, The, War, Zone, Myth, Pat Nixon, Saigon, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Vietnam, Tuzla, Barbara Bush, Saudi Arabia, The Washington Post Company, Gene Boyer, Persian Gulf, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, United States

  The Clinton campaign has cited newspaper accounts, including one in The Washington Post, to bolster the senator's claim that her now-famous March 1996 trip to Bosnia was the first visit to a "war zone" by a first lady since World War II. She is overlooking a trip to Saigon by Pat Nixon at the height...

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• Further Debunking the 'War Zone' Myth

  Published: March 27, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Further, Debunking, The, War, Zone, Myth, Pat Nixon, Saigon, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Vietnam, Tuzla, Barbara Bush, Saudi Arabia, The Washington Post Company, Gene Boyer, Persian Gulf, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, United States

  The Clinton campaign has cited newspaper accounts, including one in The Washington Post, to bolster the senator's claim that her now-famous March 1996 trip to Bosnia was the first visit to a "war zone" by a first lady since World War II. She is overlooking a trip to Saigon by Pat Nixon at the height...

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• “Debunking 9/11 Myths” by Popular Mechanics

  Published: May 27, 2008, 6:30 pm

  Tags: 5 Stars, 9 11 01, 9 11 Conspiracies, 9 11 Hijackers, Al Qaeda, Brad Reagan, Charlie Sheen, David Dunbar, Debunking 9 11 Myths, Flight 77, John Mccain, Muslims, Nonfiction Lovers, North Tower, Pentagon On 9 11, Popular Mechanics, Rosie O Donnell, Sept 11th 2001, September 1

  Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand up to the Facts by Popular Mechanics is an excellent book on one of the biggest conspiracies out there right now. Move over UFO’s, forget JFK - did the federal government and/or another “shadowy group” orchestrate September 11, 2001? The

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• “The Secret Revealed” by James Garlow and Rick Marschall

  Published: June 3, 2008, 7:45 am

  Tags: 1 25 Stars, 9 11 01, 9 11 Conspiracies, Christian Books, Debunking 9 11 Myths, Debunking 9 11 Myths By Popular Mechanics, James L Garlow, Law Of Attraction, New Age Books, New Age Philosophy, Nonfiction Lover, Nonfiction Lovers, Popular Mechanics, Rick Marschall, Rick

  The Secret Revealed: Exposing the Truth About the Law of Attraction by James L. Garlow and Rick Marschall was a book that definitely didn’t impress me. I had originally heard about The Secret from a friend of mine who really believed it with every fiber of his soul. I sat down and watched the [...]

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• Nonsense Pretending: Probability as a Disguise [Good Math, Bad Math]

  Published: July 31, 2008, 3:35 pm

  Tags: Debunking Creationism

  Once again, you, my readers, have come through with some really high-grade crackpottery. This one was actually sent to me by its author, but I didn't really look at it until several readers sent me the same link because they thought it was my kind of material. With your recommendations, I took a look, and was rewarded. In a moment of hubris, the

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• Why is randomness informative? Correcting the Clueless Creationists [Good Math, Bad Math]

  Published: August 18, 2008, 12:17 pm

  Tags: Debunking Creationism

  Someone sent me some questions about information theory; or actually, about some questions raised by a bozo creationist arguing about information theory. But the issues raised are interesting. So while I'm nominally snarking at a clueless creationist, I'm really using it as an excuse to talk about one of my favorite mathematical subjects.

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