Ken Ham’s Anti-Science Ark Encounter Opens Tomorrow If you haven’t heard the news, Ken Ham has recreated Noah’s Ark – dubbed the Ark Encounter, LLC – in rural Kentucky. Ham is the Australian-born Young Earth Creationist responsible for building the largest wooden structure in the shape of a boat in Eastern Kentucky, about 450 miles […] More
To comply with new legislation, all schools in Kentucky must now display an “In God We Trust” sign in a prominent area of their schools prior to students returning this fall. Writing for Kentucky.com, Valarie Honeycutt Spears reports: When classes start in the next few weeks, every school in Kentucky will have to prominently display […] More
An uplifting tale, just in time for the Baby Jesus’s birthday. In potato country, a priest was just sentenced to a quarter of a century in prison without parole for the “possession and distribution” of child porn. Bless me, father? No thanks. According to Patheos, the priest was had been the head of a church in the […] More
It can be pretty hard these days to distinguish satire from reality. Between fake news, alternative facts, and real, actual headlines, almost anything can seem satirical in nature. My friend James and I recently started a new satire site ourselves at Alternative-Science.com, a URL that we thought clearly implies satire and funny stories. But headlines […] More
WHO & UN say that glyphosate is not a cancer risk In a joint statement released today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said that the pesticide glyphosate (originally patented by Monsanto) “is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans from exposure through the diet.” This contrasts […] More
German Man Fined €500 For ‘Blasphemous’ Bumper Stickers Former schoolteacher Albert Voss has been fined €500 (about $550) by the western German city of Münster for having pro-atheism bumper stickers displayed on his car. Voss’ car was seized by law enforcement and his license suspended after a complaint was filed by an unknown individual. Some […] More
