Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
According to Wikipedia, The Globe and Mail (G&M), is regarded as Canada’s “newspaper of record”. Well, I rarely read it, but know from articles that readers send me that, unlike America’s Newspaper of Record (the NYT, of course) it has a mildly conservative slant. But like the NYT, the G&M has a weakness for woo, … Continue reading The Globe and Mail touts tarot readings
It seems that many venues of the “mainstream liberal media”, like National Public Radio (NPR) and the New York Times, are devoting more space to woo: dowsing, tarot, talking to the dead, astrology, and so on. Now the MSLM has become a bit savvier about this nonsense. It often claims, as in the NPR “Life … Continue reading NPR promotes tarot
Well, well, well. . . here we have a big article from the New York Times that touts ghosts, implicitly assumes that they exist and haunt houses, and tells readers how to live with them. Save for one barely noticeable caveat about naturalistic explanations for one “ghostly” phenomenon, you will find no doubt about ghosts, … Continue reading New York Times touts ghosts
Lately the New York Times went soft on dowsing, and of course they’ve been perpetually soft on astrology. Nobody seems to bring up the paper’s penchant for woo when they’re praising it for “fact-based journalism.” Even in the op-eds or “personal” stories—stories that, like today’s—give credence to woo, the Times fails to call attention to … Continue reading Unbelievable woo from the NYT: the touting of reincarnation (as well as astrology and oracle cards) by an editor
Good morning on the week’s cruelest day: Tuesday, and it’s August 17, 2021: National Vanilla Custard Day. I hope the tenor of the day doesn’t match that foodstuff. It’s also National Nonprofit Day, National #2 Pencil Day (the best pencil number), Baby Boomers Recognition Day, and National Black Cat Appreciation Day. Here’s a Baby Boomer … Continue reading Tuesday: Hili dialogue
It’s Thursday already: February 4, 2021, and a trifecta of food holidays: National Homemade Soup Day, National Stuffed Mushroom Day, and Pork Rind Appreciation Day. Eat your pork rinds: they’re good for you! It’s also Rosa Parks Day, celebrating her birthday on February 4, 1913, National Hemp Day, Liberace Day, remembering the day he died … Continue reading Thursday: Hili dialogue
by Greg Mayer After Jerry posted about the recent New York Times piece touting astrology and its harmlessness, I came across some good news, and some bad news. First, the good news: some of the Times‘ writers continue to be able to exercise their critical faculties. In a piece, “#MAGA Church“, about a loony, apocalyptic … Continue reading The New York Times has an ongoing soft spot for astrology, but not everyone there has drunk the Kool-Aid
