Room For Debate

TedRaskol — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Only Chance

TedRaskol — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Baghdad’s Vesuvius

TedRaskol — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

The Canary

TedRaskol — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Sanctions What Are They Good For

TedRaskol — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Growing Costs

TedRaskol — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

China Shop

TedRaskol — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Flip The Switch

TedRaskol — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Legislative Abduction

TedRaskol — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Quackery at Public Universities

TedRaskol — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:56:06 +0000

Pharyngula is one of my favorite blogs on the interwebs. It merges two of my favorite intellectual hobbies: skepticism and science. Granted, all scientists should by definition be skeptics, but I am simply a humble member of the peanut gallery. PZ Myers is a scientist, however, and a brilliant one at that.

In his post today, he takes on the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing:

It’s the cesspit of the university, where all the pseudoscientific fuzzy-headed crap that fails is excreted, polished, gilded, and held on high as a beacon of New Age light to lead the gullible into a sewer of feel-good futility.

Apparently, a homeopathy event (homeopathy is the preposterous claim that ‘medicine’ works better when diluted with as much water as possible)was sponsored in the health sciences building at the University and Mr. Myers really blew his top. The whole post is worth reading (read it here).

I’m posting this because it’s now a matter of policy: this is a public university pissing money away on NONSENSE. As a fiscal conservative, I would love to see this 100% pure and uncut bullshit eviscerated from budgets as soon as possible.

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