Science | The Skepticrats

Note to President Obama: Ethics sometimes aren’t “practical.”

Posted by Deuce Geary on June 25th, 2009

What do you do when a majority of your bioethics panel recommends against what you want to do? Easy! Fire them.
The White House has dismissed the members of the President’s US Council on Bioethics just a few months before their mandate expires, indicating their services are no longer required by the President and that he [...]

Calling “Bullshit” on Ben Stein’s “gotcha” detractors

Posted by Deuce Geary on February 4th, 2009

As you probably already know, Ben Stein bowed out of speaking at University of Vermont’s commencement ceremony. Apparently, students were upset by Stein’s creationist views, which he aired last year in the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. I haven’t seen that movie, not because I had some concerns about accusations that he had hoodwinked people [...]