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Dr. McLeroy believes that Earth’s appearance is a recent geologic event — thousands of years old, not 4.5 billion. “I believe a lot of incredible things,” he said, “The most incredible thing I believe is the Christmas story. That little baby born in the manger was the god that created the universe.”

But Dr. McLeroy says his rejection of evolution — “I just don’t think it’s true or it’s ever happened” — is not based on religious grounds. Courts have clearly ruled that teachings of faith are not allowed in a science classroom, but when he considers the case for evolution, Dr. McLeroy said, “it’s just not there.”

The new fight against evolution is apparently in Texas, which buys more school textbooks than any other state (shame on us, in California, with more people than any other state), if they get the text of the books changed, well, that’s what’s going to get published country-wide. And people wonder why I seriously contemplate the huge and complete hassle of moving to another country.

Oh, by the way, this “doctor?” It’s just a courtesy title, he’s actually a dentist, and has not attended medical school nor has a real Ph.D.

The chairman of the state education board, Dr. Don McLeroy, a dentist in Central Texas…

Also by the way, the Texans for Better Science Education organization is actually a creationist organization. Beware the trickery of language my darlings.

Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears. “I think the safe practice,” said Dr. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, “is to use an earpiece so you keep the microwave antenna away from your brain.”

Cellular phones use 800-900 MHz spectrum.  Wireless phones regularly use the 2.4 GHz spectrum - the same wavelength actually generated by microwave ovens, guaranteed to boil water, of which we are 78+%.

Cellphones emit non-ionizing radiation, waves of energy that are too weak to break chemical bonds or to set off the DNA damage known to cause cancer. There is no known biological mechanism to explain how non-ionizing radiation might lead to cancer.

So, really, if these experts don’t know that home based wireless phones (and, by extension, microwave ovens and B and G mode Wi-Fi) emit actually potentially damaging radiation, can I call bullshit on this?

Also for your consideration:

But researchers who have raised concerns say that just because science can’t explain the mechanism doesn’t mean one doesn’t exist. Concerns have focused on the heat generated by cellphones and the fact that the radio frequencies are absorbed mostly by the head and neck.

If they’re mostly absorbed, how do they actually manage to get a signal to the tower, and why don’t they work better when you have them in your pocket and using a headset?

Like most research on the subject, the studies are observational, showing only an association between cellphone use and cancer, not a causal relationship.

What about the fact that cellphone users, especially heavy ones, also tend to be heavy technology junkies. What about the fact that our atmosphere and beyond is completely saturated by radiation of all types electromagnetic.

Also, they talk of heavy cellphone use, but don’t bother defining what ‘heavy’ might mean. 2-3 hours a week? 2-3 hours a day or more? I use my cellphone a few hours a week, at most, but I text a lot, and keep it in my pocket. Am I gonna get nut or finger cancer?

Shit man, I’ve drank quite a few beers over the course of the evening/morning, and I can still come up with better questions than NYTimes reporters? Our world really is in a sad state.

The military, for example, administers amphetamines to pilots flying long distances.

Amphetamines.

Nevertheless, the question of whether taxpayers should finance embryonic stem cell research will make an appearance on the 2008 campaign trail, said its proponents.

If taxpayers are forced to keep funding the killing of middle easterners, we should fund embryonic stem cell research without a doubt. There is no ethical killing, even in war. Killing is killing. Sometimes your hand may be forced, sometime it is you-or-them. But the killing will always hang on your soul.

Humanity may split into two sub-species [sometime over the next 100,000 years].

But that’s not the weird ass science part. That’s the normal part. The weird part?

He carried out the report for men’s satellite TV channel Bravo.

Now that’s just weird.