Scientific medicine denialism

Orac suggests an alternative to “altie”: scientific medicine denialist.  It makes sense - the shoe fits, so to speak; Orac takes a look at them in the context of Mark Hoofnagle’s definition of denialism.

Climate denialists vs creationists

Who’d have thought that climate change denialists were even more amusing than creationists?  My post on Climate Debate Daily really brought out some strange ones.  While I wasn’t looking, the libertarian capitalists have embraced the logic and language of the Soviets.  “Freedom” means denying reality (climate change) in order to prop up the approved systems [...]

Climate Debate Daily

Climate Debate Daily is a website which claims to offer “a new way to understand disputes about global warming”:
Climate Debate Daily is intended to deepen our understanding of disputes over climate change and the human contribution to it. The site links to scientific articles, news stories, economic studies, polemics, historical articles, PR [...]

John McCain: Denialist

I suppose it takes a good measure of denialism to be able to say that the war’s not going horribly, but this still shocked me
McCain said, per ABC News’ Bret Hovell, that “It’s indisputable that (autism) is on the rise amongst children, the question is what’s causing it. And we go back and forth and [...]

Generalising Russell’s Law?

Barbara O’Brien reports on a spoof global warming denial site which many people - including ‘comedian’ Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and possibly Senator Jim Inhofe’s staff - took for the real thing.
Russell’s Law states that it’s impossible to distinguish a creationist from a parody of a creationist.  This incident makes me wonder if it’s possible [...]

Evolution denialism as biblical scholarship denialism

“Denialism is a term used to describe the position of governments, business groups, interest groups or individuals who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence and seek to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.[1]” (From the denialism article on Wikipedia.) The article continues: The term has been used in relation [...]

Comedian Dembski

High comedy at UD. In response to Coyne’s response to Behe’s “response” to Coyne’s review of Behe’s The Edge of Evolution in which Coyne says If Behe’s theory is so world-shaking, and so indubitably correct, why doesn’t he submit it to some scientific journals? (The reason is obvious, of course: his theory is flat [...]

Standards?

Recently one of the “contributors” at Dembski’s blog Uncommon Descent (I believe it was Dembski himself) made an offer to pay a prize to someone who managed to get a Sokal-style post onto Panda’s Thumb. He accused PT of not having standards with regards to what they will publish.
That said, it was really funny [...]

More hilarity at UD

Over at Dembski’s blog, DaveScot trying to “fisk” Sean Carroll’s review of Behe’s The Edge of Evolution.  (You’d think that reprinting an entire copyright article would be a copyvio, but that seems to be the norm on the far-right).  So far so bad (three posts in) they have zoomed in on:
In Darwin’s Black Box, he [...]