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eSkeptic: There IS such a thing as an anti-christian agenda |
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2:22 pm EST, Jan 20, 2007 |
A few weeks ago I posted this link, which had made BoingBoing and Interesting People. It said: Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees.
I very quickly had to update the post, as this the national park service had a clear reference to the age of the Canyon on their web page. This story has more detail about the apparent lie. PEER is an anti-Bush, anti-religion liberal activist watchdog group in search of demons to exorcise and dragons to slay. On one level, that’s how the system works in a free society, and there are plenty of pro-Bush, pro-religion conservative activist watchdog groups who do the same thing on the other side. Maybe in a Hegelian process of thesis-antithesis-synthesis we find truth that way; at least at the level of talk radio. But journalistic standards and scholarly ethics still hold sway at all levels of discourse that matter, and to that end I believe we were duped by an activist group who at the very least exaggerated a claim and published it in order to gain notoriety for itself, or worse, simply made it up.
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THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2007 |
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1:33 pm EST, Jan 1, 2007 |
As an activity, as a state of mind, science is fundamentally optimistic. Science figures out how things work and thus can make them work better. Much of the news is either good news or news that can be made good, thanks to ever deepening knowledge and ever more efficient and powerful tools and techniques. Science, on its frontiers, poses more and ever better questions, ever better put. What are you optimistic about? Why? Surprise us!
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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: News Releases |
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2:11 pm EST, Dec 30, 2006 |
Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees.
My first reaction to these things is always "you can't be serious." Update: Apparently, they're not! Thanks, PEER, for demonstrating that advocacy groups are often just as full of shit as the people they are are protesting. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: News Releases |
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Bad Astronomy Blog - The Top Ten Astronomy Images of 2006 |
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10:27 am EST, Dec 29, 2006 |
I decided to create my list of Best Astronomy Pictures of 2006. I went through hundreds of images (maybe thousands), checking NASA, APOD, the ESA, BAUT, and a few dozen amateur and professional sites featuring pictures as well.
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NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars |
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4:25 pm EST, Dec 6, 2006 |
NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
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7:49 pm EST, Nov 15, 2006 |
The Ukrainian government offered to launch DSCOVR free of charge, France made a similar offer. But NASA's response so far has been "no thanks."
LAUNCH IT! Seed: Free DSCOVR! |
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Cosmic Log : 'Lost in Space' missions |
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7:39 pm EST, Nov 15, 2006 |
Park said sending DSCOVR to the L1 gravitational balance point is "the most important thing we could be doing in space right now." Park pressed for the mission to proceed in a New York Times op-ed piece earlier this year, and several other articles have bemoaned DSCOVR's descent into limbo.
LAUNCH IT! Cosmic Log : 'Lost in Space' missions |
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