Archive for the ‘Bad Science’ Category

Knock off that bloody racket!

Wednesday, July 31st, 2002

CNN is reporting on a Thai computer programmer who is selling a
computer program
that is supposed to repel mosquitos and rats.
The program supposedly generates sound waves that the little disease bearing blighters can’t stomach. It’s absurd of course.
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Intelligent Design

Friday, July 26th, 2002

Recently the topic of intelligent design has been getting
quite a bit of play in the media. Proponents of intelligent design claim
that the evidence for evolution is not really compelling: that the
biodiversity that we observe must have been the work of an
intelligent designer. Intelligent design theory is the “science” that
is supposed to prove the existence of such a designer.
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