Homeopathy is Bullshit: Headlouse Edition!

One of the not-so-great things about being a parent is that your kid occasionally gets headlice. They seem to particularly like my kid for some reason because this is the second time I’ve had to deal with this. Either way, it’s getting really, really annoying. So I go to Walgreens to get a louse shampoo [...]

Fun with graduate schools…here’s why I’m thinking what I’m thinking.

So I’ve been looking into graduate schools and reading insane amounts of research papers and I’ve decided that I’m mainly interested in two things about pesticide resistance.

Update…strange things happening at the one-two point

Okay…I realize it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything semi-science related (or…you know, anything at all), so I figure I’d cue y’all into what’s up. As I mentioned before, I have some legal (minor custody quibble) stuff to sort out and quite a bit of preparation for finals to do. I just got back from [...]

Captian Planet and the Boll Weevil

Okay…I probably should have done this to begin with, but let’s discuss some very basic boll weevil biology and pest management. The boll weevil Anthonomus grandis which is portrayed in this episode is a curculionid. This group of beetles is characterized by that long snout you see in the cartoon. They got this right, however [...]

Wow…are they really this transparent?

Michael Egnor over at the Discovery Institute wrote a post which I thought was really quite revealing. I wouldn’t come back to it, but there’s something about this post which I think characterizes the anti-evolution movement: After a long strawman story on spina bifida, he concludes with this post: I like a good story as [...]

Dembski steps down

http://www.uncommondescent.com/adminstrative/change-at-ud/ I’m a bit late getting in on this, I know. Most of my pseudoscience reading happens when I’m not in school. It looks like Dembski’s stepping down from Uncommon Descent to ‘work on research’ on his so-called conservation of information thingy. Of course, Dembski’s so-called information conservation is simply non-sensical because it ignores the [...]