Trump Attacks Wall Between Church And State With ‘Religious Liberty’ Order Today is the ‘National Day of Prayer’ in the US, a country where you can already pray anytime, anywhere, to any god you want already. Coincidentally, Trump signed an executive order today allowing churches to be more political. This is a direct attack on […] More
Donald Trump is not even wrong Something tells me that if you told Donald Trump that he’s “not even wrong,” he would take it as a compliment. Things that satirize him aren’t even satire anymore, because his actual words are far more ridiculous. The excerpts from his press conference were absolutely ridiculous. Check out this […] More
Draft of Trump executive order would legalize discrimination because: God Last week, The Investigative Fund and the website called “The Nation” released a draft of Donald Trump’s executive order entitled “Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom.” According to the site, the executive order covers: “any organization, including closely held for-profit corporations,” and protects […] More
What Does A Trump Presidency Mean For Science In America? To answer this question up-front: Nothing good. Also, we’re all screwed. Might as well put that out there first as well. The “Positives” There have already been reactions across the scientific spectrum from a variety of fields and very few of them are optimistic about […] More
Clinton lost. Trump won. Now where do we go from here? President-elect Donald Trump. Holy. Shit. It happened. It really happened. It’s okay to be angry or frustrated. I’m right there with you. Yesterday, we elected someone who is openly racist, openly misogynist, openly xenophobic, and openly does not have a plan for anything he’s […] More
Imagine living in a country where you have Senators who "probably will" support a bill codifying marriage equality, and yet more who will oppose it
— Dan Broadbent (@aSciEnthusiast) July 20, 2022
Imagine living in a country where you have Senators who “probably will” support a bill codifying marriage equality, and yet more who will oppose it. Imagine living in a country where you have Senators who "probably will" support a bill codifying marriage equality, and yet more who will oppose it — Dan Broadbent (@aSciEnthusiast) July […] More
There are always folks who whine about me making fun of religion, saying things like “why can’t you let people believe what they want” or claiming I’m being rude by mocking a completely ridiculous ideology. This post is for those people. Do you understand now? Does it make sense? Do you feel any sort of […] More
(I would love to see us move away from calling them "conspiracy theories" because they are in fact *not* theories. They're failed hypotheses.)
— Dan Broadbent (@aSciEnthusiast) December 2, 2020
With so much misinformation and outright falsehoods about Covid-19 running rampant, I thought it would be worthwhile to create a sort of go-to guide for engaging your friends, family, and random people on the internet who are spreading failed Covid-19 conspiracy hypotheses. As an aside, I also encourage you to stop referring to them as […] More
I'm pro-abortion the same way I'm pro-appendectomy or pro-hip replacement.
— Dan Broadbent (@aSciEnthusiast) March 5, 2019
It's a medical procedure that doesn't involve me. https://t.co/O79uyv8vz3
Christians around the country, whether they admit it or not, are using the Bible as a basis for legislation, but what if I told you the Bible is actually very pro-choice? Last week, I wrote about how statistics show that increased access to contraceptives lowers the abortion rate. I'm pro-abortion the same way I'm pro-appendectomy […] More
In an age when the president has no problem inserting hyper-partisan rhetoric in a veto signing statement of an ultimately bipartisan rejection of one of his emergency declaration, why not examine what happened in this country that would make it possible for the party of Abraham Lincoln to become the party of Confederate monument defending […] More
As we talk about humans returning to the moon and the Trump administration forming the Space Force, it’s easy to think about the less-sexy bodies in the solar system, particularly Neptune and Uranus. But a group at NASA aims to change that, with plans to send probes to the planets to learn more about their […] More
Anti-vaxxers are the 8th Wonder of the World to me. They have access to the full body of knowledge humanity possesses in their pocket, yet somehow they think they know more than doctors who have dedicated their lives to medicine. It’s a runaway Dunning-Kruger effect. The state of Washington is currently dealing with yet another […] More
