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Science, Cockroaches and Bad Romance

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1 year ago
by Logarchism.com in

Pauly has quite an eye for the ladies. As you know, he adores Sarah Palin…but he’s also a huge fan of Lady Gaga. After all, what platy­pus wouldn’t love a girl who wears a meat dress to an offi­cial func­tion? Though Pauly loy­ally main­tains that Sarah Palin, that famous hunter, car­ni­vore, and pur­veyor of red meat, would also have not hes­i­tated to wear a meat dress in pub­lic if she’d thought of it first and real­ized how much pub­lic­ity it would generate.

So Pauly was delighted to read that Lady Gaga is help­ing sci­ence by assist­ing in a study of move­ment that con­cen­trates on the move­ment pat­terns of cock­roaches. This story appeals to Pauly on a num­ber of lev­els. First of all, he actu­ally con­sid­ers cock­roaches quite a tasty treat if he’s able to catch them. Sec­ondly, the idea of roaches rock­ing tire­lessly to “Bad Romance” is just so cute. And finally, he really likes that linked image of Lady Gaga in fish­net tights.

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No Science Please, We’re Republicans

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I’ve writ­ten before about the unfor­tu­nate anti-​​science ten­den­cies in the cur­rent incar­na­tion of the Repub­li­can Party. Just to recap:

  • The Bush Admin­is­tra­tion had a strong and unequiv­o­cal record of oppos­ing sci­ence, includ­ing but not lim­ited to the fields of cli­mate change, devel­op­men­tal human anatomy, and stem cell research.
  • All 33 Repub­li­can can­di­dates for the US Sen­ate in the 2010 elec­tion cycle denied the exis­tence of anthro­pogenic global warm­ing. They did not say, “the sci­ence is not yet com­plete,” which is a qual­i­fied and well-​​informed answer, if not the most pop­u­lar amongst sci­en­tists. They said, rather, “there is no such thing as anthro­pogenic global warm­ing and the sci­ence behind it is the result of malfea­sance.” (more…)
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