A while ago I had a bit of a rant about the CSIRO’s so-called Total Wellbeing Diet. Since then the book has sat at the top of the bestseller list, so obviously people are into it, much to my annoyance.
So it was nice surprise to open the newspaper this morning and finally read a good […]

When I started this blog I openly admitted that it was an experiment, and I outlined a few general aims for the blog. Here is what I hoped this blog would achieve:
Writing: Although my research job involves a lot of writing I often find it difficult to get motivated. Thus the experiment of using this […]

After reading Barney Zwartz’s article on intelligent design in The Age last week I got into a bit of a flap and started drafting a response. But I didn’t get very far, so fortunately John Wilkins has done the job excellently, posting an eloquent summary of why ID is not science. Couldn’t have said it […]

Sometimes I wish that people like Hugh Morgan would show the same degree of scepticism towards economics as they do to global warming. Watching him last night on ABC’s Lateline he spouted a lot of economic voodoo to support radical industrial relations reforms:
If you took the OECD, the average taxes that are paid by […]

Just when you thought Australia’s education minister Brendan Nelson couldn’t spout any more nonsense (following his ignorant and vindictive take on Student Associations, and his attacks on the Australian Research Council), yesterday he tacitly endorsed Bush’s nonsense on ID: ‘Intelligent design’ an option.
He told the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday that he would oppose […]

Just a brief follow up to my previous comments on War of the Worlds, to show that the issue of Intelligent Design is indeed topical and significant.
Bush endorses teaching ‘intelligent design’
BY RON HUTCHESON
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - President Bush waded into the debate over evolution and ‘intelligent design’ Monday, saying schools should teach both […]

I’ve long had a bit of a thing for zombies, so I was very excited to read about the Evolution Store on the Philosophy of Biology Blog, where you can pick from a great selection of brains. I would dearly love to get the deluxe brain with opened head, or the 14-part giant brain, but […]