Faith healing and children
There are quite a few states that currently have varying levels of religious exemptions to child welfare laws, including my current home state of Idaho. In these states if you’re […]
Tuesday Science – My weekend at Ocean Shores, WA
Since the news has been slow over the holidays and I was out of town for four days I’m going to skip the normal news this week and focus on […]
Lighthouses > Churches – Science education in New Hampshire and Scientology
Happy New Year!Couple web comics for your enjoyment. WTH NH?As part of the original 13, I always thought New Hampshire was special. While working out there for a couple months, […]
Why is today New Years?/Happy New Years!
In 46 BCE Julius Caesar established a new calendar, a solar calendar, that went into effect for what is now referred to as 45 BCE. In it he determined that […]
Happy New Years Eve!
This is a few years old, but damn, it sure is fitting this year. I really wish people would stop with the 2012 bullshit. The Mayan calendar ran 12 and […]
Lighthouses > Churches – Year in review
**Wesley’s been on vacation and lost track of time, now I’m on vacation so you get to put up with him today. – DW**A Couple of the Year’s Best (And […]
Vaccine exemptions and herd immunity
There was a good piece a while ago on some of the legal issues around mandating vaccines for school children on Science Based Medicine. Basically it lays out that for […]
There goes Ron Paul’s libertarian creditials
Ed Brayton of the Dispatches from the Culture Wars has a great post on why Ron Paul needs opposed. Paul has a lot of good ideas for trimming some of […]
Tuesday Science News – Space tourism, elephant population, a very old galaxy, and more!
Zero2Infinity is a new “space tourism” company that’s taking an interesting and more environmentally friendly approach to getting people high above the earth: balloons! People generally consider space to start […]
The SCA presidential candidate scorecard
In case you’ve missed it, the Secular Coalition for American did a recent scorecard on the current slate of presidential contenders. On the SCA site you can find a link […]