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People believing prayer is helpful is one thing, but this shit is nuts.  They should torture her the same way she tortured her kid, just not letting her die in the end.  30 years in prison is worse than death.

Bioethicist Offers $10,000 Reward For Proof of Bachmann Vaccine Claims – Forbes.

Lie and get called out for it Bachman, you biotch!

Fundamentalism, Spirituality, and IQ – Stuart Ritchie – Time out of mind – RichardDawkins.net.

I think we all generalized that fundy’s had lower IQ’s than atheists but here’s an interesting article about it.

Column: The truth behind the ‘let him die’ nonsense – USATODAY.com.

So I read this article at the USA Today web site and the first thing I thought of was BS.  This Katrina Trinko was acting as an apologist for the candidates being honest about their right wing asshole attitudes.  She states there were 2-3 people cheering in the audience about letting the patient die, but how would she know? She wasn’t there obviously or she would know if it was 2 or 3.

Next, the answers from the candidates were asshole-ish (my new word).  So neighbors, families, communities, and churches are going to pay off HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of debt piled up by sick people they supposedly care about?  That would never happen voluntarily, EVER. How much do you think a neighborhood car wash brings in? $100-$200 maybe.  Not really a dent when a $400,000 hospital bill comes due.

On the other hand, we have a name for that, INSURANCE.  When everyone pitches in, it’s a tax (I know, I hate the word too, but it’s a necessary evil) that pays for the insurance.  It has to be mandatory or it won’t work.  And a one-payer system would work best but it will never happen, so that has to be shelved.  The half-assed plan that did pass needs a lot of work thanks to loopholes meant to make companies like McDonalds happy.

So getting back to that $400,000 unpaid hospital bill.  Who pays for that?  You do, higher hospital bills, insurance costs, doctor bills, etc.  You want to know why it costs $300 to see your doctor when you have a migraine?  Just think of those thousands of unpaid $400,000 bills.  If you ask why I am using $400,000 as an example, one reason.  Ron Paul’s (extremely effective) former campaign manager died of pneumonia, without insurance, and left $400,000 in unpaid medical bills, leaving his family destitute.

Ron Paul’s Campaign Manager Died of Pneumonia, Penniless and Uninsured.

So Wolf’s audience seems to think that uninsured people should be allowed to die and not get medical treatment.  And Paul thinks that churches who are full of the same selfish assholes as the audience should be paying to help the poor get healthcare.  Most churches can barely pay their bills so how is that going to work asshole?

Bullshit!

Palin would be foolish to run at this point. Perry has embraced the insanity that is the tea bag party. She can’t win as she is seen as a fringe nutjob. However, voters don’t realize that Perry is the same only with a penis. He has a higher chance of being elected than anyone at this point. Theocracy is on it’s way.

This is not meant to be a scientific definition at all but a way to simplify and clarify what a hypothesis and a theory actually are.

A hypothesis is a test that is designed to prove or disprove a concept.  For example if you wanted to show that nitrogen can help plants grow, you would make a test (hypothesis) that said: This test will show how applying nitrogen to neutral soil will cause a tomato plant to grow faster than the control.  That’s it.

A theory is used to describe WHY your test proved your hypothesis.  A theory means that your hypothesis was PROVEN.  Theories are facts.  Theories are proven, ideas and concepts are not.

Evolution is a theory because it has been proven.  Creationism is an idea, and not a theory at all.  Evolution can be tested, creationism can’t be.  Intelligent Design (ID) is also an idea but I’ll post about that in a different blog.

A logical fallacy is an error in logic in an argument.  There are many that you read everyday.  Skeptics use critical thinking skills and avoid logical fallacies.  However, there are many times when we use them and don’t realize it until we analyze our own thoughts.  Creationists use them quite a bit when arguing against evolutionists (one example).  The Skeptics Guide to the Universe has a fantastic list of logical fallacies.  Critical thinking skills including logical fallacies should be taught and retaught in school.

Just in case you haven’t noticed, this blog is full of my opinions based on articles I have read.  I do not have time to get source documents and bother politicians.  If I make a post based on false published information, I’m sorry.  If I catch it, I’ll fix it.  Politically I’m very independent but I despise the GOP as it is nowadays.  If you deny science, evolution, or working together, they will get my wrath.

I am a skeptic.  And if you don’t know what that is, I can tell you what it is not.  It is not conspiracy theorists, not homeopathy, and not chiropractic.  Skeptics utilize the best available science to draw a conclusion about a topic.  Like science, the conclusion may change with the data, so a skeptic will usually adjust opinions as needed.  This is different from a cynic; they just poo-poo on everything or a conspiracy theory nutter who suffers from cognitive dissonance.