David Ng started it. This was a quick and easy one for me - let me know if other queries bring up one of my blogs to the 1st spot on Google searches:
'I want this job'
'open laboratory 2008'
femiphobia
femiphobic
Bora Zivkovic
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You may have noticed a site called "New York Articles" (http://nyarticles.com/) which "aggregates" content from a bunch of different blogs, including this one as well as a number of other scienceblogs.com blogs.
We know that the GOP has been incapable of and uninterested in governing for about half a century now.
People argue bad science, psuedoscience and nonsense for a variety of reasons, some religiously motivated, some politically motivated, some out of ignorance, some out of arrogance, some out emotional needs, some due to psychological problems.