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Excellent essay from Coyne and Maroja that picks apart six widespread examples of biology being corrupted by (often well-intentioned) ideology.

This article addresses and debunks the ridiculous ‘10-foot-tall aliens in a backyard in Las Vegas’ story which UFO nuts have been bandying about for the past few weeks. I’m sure no one here is surprised it isn’t true, but it’s still an entertaining read.

Anti-evolutionism is a quintessential and particularly pernicious type of pseudoscience. Quintessential because it is both common and characterized by many of the classic hallmarks of pseudoscience. Pernicious because it directly aims at undermining both science, and education more broadly, in a ...