The Eternal Gaijin

What can you not prove with a little mathishness? A good question. About a month ago there was a little coverage about a pharmacy put up its online calculator that tells you the number of indirect sexual partners you've had. What is an indirect sexual partner it's someone you've not had sex with but one of your sexual partners has. Which basically is that old urban myth twaddle about you're not just sleeping with someone, you're sleeping with everyone they've ever slept with, only with a place to modify the numbers. People take some stuff really seriously. Like these guys: The Independent . The Christian Institute . This dude . And at the risk of channeling Ben Goldacre form a moment, the common factor is that they lazily breathlessly copied the press release without even so much as a challenge to the basic assumption or the execution. So let's whinge for a moment. First execution. You enter your current age, number of sexual partners and your gender. Then y...

A justice in the US regularly quizzes couples to make sure they aren’t mixed race before issuing marriage license; if they are they don’t get one. Fuckin’ fuck. In 2009 how the fuck does this happen? And in a stunning show of cognitive dissonance these two quotes : Keith Bardwell, of Tangipahoa Parish in Louisiana, denied racism but said mixed-race children were not readily accepted by their parents' communities. snip… He said: "I try to treat everyone equally." I had a great-uncle who said this sort of thing: "There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," he said "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it." I was 10 and though it was a specious argument. But he was old and from a different time…And he was a sign painter, not a fucking justice. This guy should be run out of town, but it being Louisiana he’ll end up with a memorial plaque or something.

The universe is not "fine-tuned" Not really sure what else to say about this. Clear and well presented.

That’s cause they’re different fucking words. Now get on with the vaccinations .

Nope . Continue your day.

As long as I've been reading Bad Astronomy I thought I'd seen most of the arguments against the moon landing. They're nuts but they're based on some misperceived reality. Through Steven Novella of the NESS , I learned of a whole new form of crazy: Man On The Moon–A Colossal Hoax that Cost Billions of Dollars | Hare Krishna Community Although many believe man first reached the moon in July, 1969, we have information from a very reliable source, the Sanskrit Vedic scriptures, that the astronauts never actually went to the moon. The manned moon landing was a colossal hoax. Now I know what you're thinking - that makes sense. How do we know that the books tell the truth? Because  they're perfect. And they're perfect because they tell the truth...You know the drill. And they lead to the inevitable conclusion: Despite the tremendous volume of propaganda proclaiming the “conquest of outer space,” we have information from a very reliable source, the Sanskrit Vedic sc...