Reg and Simon:

The most important thing a scientific institution can fund is the freedom to investigate a question whose importance nobody yet understands.

For the funding, though, it should at least deliver understanding for the importance of the question, and ideally as an added bonus, the answer for the question.

Being a bee while being a…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The most important thing a scientific institution can fund is the freedom to investigate a question whose importance nobody yet understands.

Trump seems to want to stuff “free enquiry” into some kind of box, but I can’t work out what kind.  I think he wants to make science come up with more answers.  I don’t think t…[Read more]

Reg:

We shouldn’t reason with the Religious Right.

Drew McCoy a.k.a. Genetically-Modified Skeptic is correct that the way we have engaged with religion and the Religious Right in particular, has not been effective in getting people that least re-think religion.

For one thing, we need Science Influencers and Educators who aren’t squeamish a…[Read more]

Reg:

I meant “Orifrice” not “Office,” though Trump’s Oval Office could also be full of very full orifices.

I wonder if all this talk brought out our latest member updating a profile? Hmmm…Perhaps I should keep my orifice shut on orifices and see what happens. For the record, I’m not interested in a trip all the way to Manila.

Fellow Unbelievers:

Some great news in the midst of an otherwise insane world: Bobby Brainworm’s Danish allies’ attempt to discredit the Hepatitis B vaccine with a Tuskeegee-type placebo clinical Trial has been closed down by Guinea-Bissau health authorities…for now at least:

Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vac…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!

Reg:

Pew Research: Reports of God’s Resurrection have been greatly exaggerated

I don’t know what to make of any of these polls.

One example: Every month The Drudge Report links an article about Trump’s polls, it has him at a consistent 30 Percent approval, even through his latest tariffs, his latest “enrichment” scheme, his latest breach of t…[Read more]

Reg:

Is Nicki Minaj’s ass going to be the next speaker of alternative facts? Maybe I misheard…..

It will be whenever it distracts Trump from his sausage fest…But of course, it’s not polite to speak when one’s office is full.

Reg:

Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI.

Doesn’t this just continue Religion Privilege but merely expand Religion to include any pursuit that involves “being a moral actor,”. like maybe “I believe I’ll have another drink?”

Shouldn’t a Humanist position on AI be that it’s use should further human…[Read more]

Is Nicki Minaj’s ass going to be the next speaker of alternative facts?  Maybe I misheard…..