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Ground-Breaking Science: Very Old Papers Are Both Awesome and Hilarious | Wired Science
Hilarious. As title says.
« We don’t know necessarily what the right thought is. But we do know when we see a failure in the process of thinking. And in the case of one Deepak Chopra, that failure is lit up like a neon sign and draped in the open for all to see… if they’re willing to think about it.
« Bethe has said that he would rather lose any two other men than Feyman from this present job, and Wigner said, “He is a second Dirac, only this time human.
« No doubt word spread among the prison population that the affable governor was vulnerable to appeals from convicts who claimed to be born again. Clemmons too was among those who benefited from Huckabee’s tendency to believe such pious testimonials.
« In tests that asked people what god’s opinion of various matters was, the unsurprising discovery was that it was the same as the individual’s opinion — and of course every person’s opinion was different.
Presumably, the study was done by the Captain Obvious University. God is a sockpuppet : Pharyngula
« The list of scumbags who are supporting this bill [to kill gay people in Uganda] include adulterer Mark Sanford (hey, isn’t adultery a crime punishable by death in the Old Testament?), Sen. Sam Brownback (who supports the Discovery Institute and is a creationist), Sen. Jim DeMint (who wants abortions to be illegal, even if the mother’s life is at risk), Sen. Chuck Grassley (who claimed that Americans need to fear government “death panels”, despite him being a part of that same government ), Sen. John Thune (who supported the invasion of Iraq as a way of getting Christianity in there), and Sen. Joe Pitts (the co-founder of the amendment to the health care reform bill that would make it so abortions wouldn’t be covered).

