by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 21, 2010 | Comedy, World Views
The history of science is one of my primary interests. What constitutes science, how scientific opinion and data has changed or appeared, and what sort of influence the whole field of science has on culture, as well as vice versa. Despite all its glory, science is,...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 16, 2010 | Comedy, Satire, World Views
…Asteroids, asteroids, we all fall down. “Evolution is so ‘out there’ that it’s on its way out,” a friend told me. She had many reasons to conclude that it is irrational of some scientists to proclaim that macroevolution is fact. ...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 9, 2010 | Comedy, Satire, World Views
After all, when in doubt, blame an asteroid. No other disaster will do. When I was a child I once acquired a mainstream “educational” coloring book about dinosaurs. The last page in the book featured two parrots with the caption, “This is what...
