Merry Friday! Links for you. Science:
Why Scientific Research on Animals Is Worthwhile
The Palin Effect
Reading the Coverage of a Retraction: Failure to replicate is not evidence of fraud
Other:
Behold The Power Of My Mighty Blogs
Gibbs: People who are upset with Obama don't live in real America, didn't help get Obama elected (Sure, Gibbs 'walked it back', but it's nothing they haven't been saying for two years; they just didn't do it during the slowest part of the news cycle before)
Plenty of Jobs, Not Enough Workers?
Myths
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For all the good things about my life there are, there is one bad thing, and that was that I was born so that I reached high school age right at the height of the disco era.
In the previous entry, I made some disparaging remarks about conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), and George Lakoff specifically.
And yet another of his fellow Christians blows the whistle on him.
l cannot fathom why Robert Gibbs, the President's Press Secretary, would dispute that the animal scurrying past the