It never fails to amaze me, how amusingly credulous idiots can be. Mix that with pseudoscience, and you’ve got both the scam and the victim.
This is ridiculous: Medical researchers in Oklahoma are offering a no-questions-asked $1,000 reward for the return of a stolen laptop that contains years of research on prostate cancer. […] Has no one heard of backups?! Any time you have data that you can’t afford to lose, you should be making regular backups of it! Preferably …
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More on the nuclear “disaster” at Fukushima, and its consequences. And a few facts about Chernobyl that most people aren’t aware of as well. (And this will be my last post on the subject for at least a month, I promise.) This is the problem that everyone faces, who describes nuclear incidents as they really …
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Two final articles, from different writers at The Register, on the Fukushima nuclear plant. I can understand why TV newscasts would do such a thing (for those living under a rock, they’ve tried to present it as a disaster of epic proportions, though in reality it was just a minor footnote to the true disaster …
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I have to break my self-imposed silence again. I don’t pay much attention to newspapers or television news. By definition, the only things they’ll air are bad news (“if it bleeds, it leads”), which gives an extremely warped and unnecessarily depressing view of the world. What little I’ve seen of their reporting on the situation …
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Some spammer’s automated spam-bots have targeted Geek Drivel over the past few weeks, for reasons unknown. Well, okay, the surface reasons are obvious — but since they haven’t managed to get a single spam published, despite weeks of effort and hundreds of attempts per day, you’d think the spammer would notice and turn them to …
Damned genes and their liberal agenda. For political reasons they refuse to justify the conservatives’ assertion that they’re just better than everybody else.
I’d like to take this opportunity to remind children — and their parents — that Harry Potter and Hedwig are fictional characters, living in a fictional world, and that in the real world, owls do not make good pets. And if you want to sacrifice something, how about your tobacco habit? That would be good …
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I find this amusing, from the perspective of a modern, logical, Internet-connected Westerner who knows that vampires are myths. But I have to wonder just how many mistaken beliefs I have, that could be used against me in the same way by a more advanced enemy… (Fortunately, any “more advanced enemy” would almost have to …
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That explains a lot: they’re mentally ill. Something we “numerates” have long suspected. (Sorry for the pay-wall, it wasn’t there when I first wrote this post. There’s what seems to be a complete copy of it here, though I don’t know for how long.)
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you probably know my stance on global warming. Or rather, my former stance: I wasn’t precisely a skeptic, but I wasn’t convinced, because the evidence that was being put forth smelled fishier than a tuna trawler. As it turns out, my doubts were well-founded, but wrong. …