Posted on Nov 27, 2018 | Comments Off on How Anti-Science Activists Manipulate Twitter – And How You Can Help Science Fight Back
There is a reason that environmental groups and other anti-science activists out-earn the pro-science non-profit world by 1000X, and that reason is emotion.See a scientist be emotional or aggressive in defending their work and any number of people, including other scientists, will chide them and say that is not how scientists are supposed to act. Meanwhile, the trial lawyers who run environmental...
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Posted on May 27, 2015 | Comments Off on Red Lady: Religious Symbolism In A Paleolithic Tomb?
The Red Lady burial site in El Mirón cave, outside Ramales de la Victoria in Cantabria, Spain, dates back to the Upper Palaeolithic 16,000 years ago. The archaeological site was discovered in 1903 but it wasn't until 2010 that bones were discovered at the back of the cave, in a small space between the wall and a fallen block. Both the bones and the sediment under them were reddish.The...
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Posted on Oct 31, 2014 | Comments Off on The Ghosts Of The First Neolithic People In A Paleo World
If you lived in Hilazon Tachtit, near the Hilazon river of Israel 12,000 years ago, you might have borne witness to a world first; the earliest known religious ceremony.
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Posted on May 22, 2014 | Comments Off on Predictor Of Extra-Marital Affairs Among Women Married To Fishermen – Penis Size
The Deadliest Catch details the work travails of Bering Sea crab fishermen, but African wives of fishermen may be having adventures of their own.The authors of a recent paper estimated that up to 60% of men and 50% of women report extra-marital partnerships in their lifetime - and they believe those numbers are under-reported, especially among women, due to cultural constraints. In reality, range...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2013 | Comments Off on Jesus A Propaganda Campaign? Myth Of The Oppressed Underdog In The Humanities
In the early parts of Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code" he spends a great deal of time outlining how both art history (no, really) and his particular brand of religious revisionism are legitimate ... but repressed by Big Religion.In science, we see that all of the time; X says he can invent perpetual motion or has overturned some aspect of medicine or biology and "dogma" keeps it hidden. It's the...
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Posted on Jul 25, 2013 | Comments Off on Christians – The Little Discussed ‘Green’ Demographic
When most people think 'green' in America, they think of liberal Democrats. It's a carefully crafted image. Conservatives who deny global warming conserve energy just as much as liberals who accept it but that gets little attention. Sociologists in a new paper instead found that the idea of the 'green' Christian is the environmental trope they need to spend their time debunking.
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