Desiree Jennings "cured" of her "vaccine-induced dystonia"?
scienceblogs.com — You remember Desiree Jennings? She's the young woman who received a seasonal flu vaccine in August and later developed what is being represented as dystonia but is almost certainly not. (Submitted by RobertWright) More...
Mantis Shrimp Eyes Inspire New Technology
scienceblogs.com — The most incredible eyes in the animal world can be found under the sea, on the head of the mantis shrimps. Each eye can move independently and can focus on object with three different areas, giving the mantis shrimp "trinocular vision". While we see in three colours, they see in twelve....... (Submitted by itc518) More...
Kill a Kid? Take the Day Off
scienceblogs.com — Here's another appalling story of how the police get treated one way and civilians quite another. Dallas cop does 70 in a 40 mph zone without his lights or sirens on, hits a kid on a bike and kills him. His punishment: A day off from work. Without pay, I'm sure. (Submitted by smurfz) More...
PZ Myers explains how religious conservativism will lose out
scienceblogs.com — The belief among many religious conservatives is that all they need to do is simply "out breed" the godless communist liberals and they will win the Culture Wars. PZ Myers explains that this is pure nonsense. (Submitted by amprather) More...
Beck Tries to Kill Parody Website : Dispatches from the Cult
scienceblogs.com — I don't know if you've ever seen the Did Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Young Girl in 1990 website, but it's fairly amusing. It's a political satire of the style of argument Glenn Beck likes to engage in, which involves requiring that someone prove a negative ("prove you didn't do X") and making claims in the form of an interrogative (Submitted by jhollida) More...
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