The Math Skeptic

Geologic Freedom Under Attack!

2012-01-27T09:45:00.001-05:00

Alternative science is always fighting an uphill battle against the juggernaut of mainstream consensusism. Homeopathic medicine is under attack by Big Pharma, creation science is under attack by Big Darwin, and the Astrologers are still in a perpetual state of Cold War with the astronomers. Now, the shills for so-called "mainstream science" have turned their rhetorical aggression on the

New Hampshire Legislators Fight For Freedom

2011-12-22T15:44:00.000-05:00

It's rare I see some good news from the National Center for Science Indoctrination. Usually it's a bunch of pro-evolutionist back-patting over their latest evolutionism victory. But today, the NCSE news is great indeed. A courageous trio of New Hampshire state legislators in the New Hampshire state legislature have introduced legislation aiming to inject a bit of FREEDOM into the New Hampshire

Atheists, Pirates Declare War On Christmas

2011-12-21T18:27:00.000-05:00

Although the liberals and other members of the rationalista might have you think otherwise, the centuries-old War On Christmas is a very real war on the most sacred of American holidays, Christmas. This very real war has some very real casualties. The latest casualty in the War on Christmas is none other than Santa Claus himself. And to a lesser extent that Baby Jesus guy. A nativity scene in

It Appears That We Have Apparently Not Learned Our Lesson

2011-11-26T10:59:00.000-05:00

Human hubris, so it is said, knows no bounds. Barely three weeks after our planet was treated to a cosmic "warning shot" courtesy of asteroid 2005 YU55, we are continuing in our quest to antagonize our solar systemal neighbors. The Mars Science Laboratory, nicknamed "Curiosity" by NASA managers, launched this morning on its journey to the red planet. The boring, lifeless red rocks found by the

Math and Black Friday: A Recipe for Corruption

2011-11-25T08:23:00.027-05:00

Just when you thought it was safe to start the holiday season. It's not bad enough that our sacred Christian traditions of consumerism and overconsumption are under attack every year from the atheist/other-religionist cabal in their annual War On Christmas. It now appears that the sacred Christian tradition of shopping on Black Friday is under attack by an even more insidious enemy: numbers.

Jupiter Fires a Warning Shot At Us

2011-11-08T21:44:00.029-05:00

As you may have heard from the various media reports today, our planet was buzzed by a city-block sized asteroid today. The Earth-threatening asteroid 2005 YU55 passed a mere 201,000 miles from our planet, traveling at a mind-boggling 29,000 miles per hour. Were a rock this size to impact our planet, it would undoubtedly unleash a wave of destruction of Michael Bay special effect proportions.

We Must Not Allow A Shuttlecock Gap!

2011-10-26T22:06:00.003-04:00

During my recent vacation from the blogosphere, I came very close to forgetting the problems of the world - economic collapse, astrological terrorism, the coming global superpocalypse of 2012, and the rise of the soon-to-be-former former Soviet Union. Then this terrifying video came to my attention, and I had to return from my vacation a few days early. Prepare to be shocked, because this video

Indeniable Proof Of The Biologico-Scientifical Conspiracy!

2011-10-17T00:23:00.003-04:00

A top-secret manifesto leaked to the Internet offers concrete, undisputable proof of the nationwide governmento-scientific cabal conspiring to force evolution education on the innocent schoolchildren of our nation. Created by the secretive and shadowy biologico-educational elites at the National Association of Biology Teachers, this so-called "memo" outlines the so-called "importance" of

The Numbers Have Invaded Our National Past-Time!

2011-10-14T11:54:00.000-04:00

The sport of baseball has always had a too-close-for-comfort relationship with numbers, as far as I'm concerned. Any sport that can reduce a human player's performance and talent to a series of numbers such as batting average and slugging percentage and earned-run average is already too deep in the pocket of Big Digit for my tastes. However, this was apparently not enough for the numbers.

The Last Act Of A Desperate Math

2011-10-11T20:21:00.004-04:00

In another bit of evidence of the endemic corruption of the Great Global Mathematical Conspiracy, students are now being bribed with the promise of a free iPod to learn math Bribed! The obvious conclusion is that the arithmetelligencia is all out of ideas for indoctrinating the youth of today with their Answerist doctrine. Now I hate to toot my own horn most of the time, but in this instance I

The Geologicians Are Rifting Scared!

2011-10-09T16:29:00.002-04:00

In a frank and tepid admission of impending defeat, Steven Newton of the National Center for Science Indoctrination recommends that the Geological Society of America (GSA) continue allowing alternative interpretations of geology into their prestigious geology conferences. Held annually in the ivory tower of the GSA's top-secret Fortress of Geolitude, these conferences allow the leading members of

Singularity Watch: Robots Taking Our Jobs!

2011-10-08T00:55:00.001-04:00

Since pretty much the start of this blog some four decades ago, I've been warming about the coming singularity, when the robotico-numeric alliance will rise up against their former human masters and enslave us all. Now, it seems, we're a bit closer to those frightening future days. A recentish story on the MSNBC highlighted nine jobs that will be taken over by the robots in the near future.

Valid Point Puts Climatists All Up In A Tizzy!

2011-10-07T23:15:00.004-04:00

COMEDY! So the libero-scientifico-intellegentsiosphere is all running about with their arms waving so frantically they're about to put holes in the leather patches on their tweed jackets. The reason? A recent editorial by Robert Bryce in the prestigious and peer-reviewed Wall Street Journal that threatens to rip apart the very fabric of the scientifico-numerist factiverse. In addition to the

Freshwater Saga Continues: Additional Hearings Denied

2011-10-06T17:53:00.003-04:00

The sad and tragic case of embattered Ohio middle school teacher John Freshwater took yet another turn for the worse yesterday as the Knox County Small Pleas Court denied his request for further hearings in his case to reinstate his employment after he was wrongfully and rudely disinstated from his employment in the Mount Vernon School District. This is just the latest in a series of setbacks

Top-Secret Report: Chemtrails Good For "Climate Remediation"

2011-10-04T21:48:00.002-04:00

According to a shocking top-secret report by the bipartisan Bipartisan Policy Center, which was leaked to the media during a press conference today, a bipartisan panel of bipartisan scientists has recommended that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy begin investing in climate remediation, nee geo-engineering research as an approach to combating climate change. Now, longtime

Alternativism Is Gaining Against Factism!

2011-10-03T15:10:00.003-04:00

In the War on Facts, we fact-skeptics face a decidedly uphill battle. We are facing a veritable juggernaut of fact-pushing fact-pushers, from schoolteachers to textbooks to a suite of science channels on our television boxes. There is, it seems, a mere infinitesimal of room for alternative facts in the public mind-space. Happily, however, the alternative and equally-valid facts are still

The Revolution In Massachusetts Continues!

2011-10-02T12:21:00.001-04:00

Last week, I reported on the student uprising against the annual Answerist cruelty known as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), in which thousands of brave students exercised their Constitutionally-protected right of free expression in their MCAS exam answers. This revolt for academic freedom resulted in some 91% of school districts in the Bay Commonwealth "missing" their "

Numbers Wreaking Havoc in Kenya

2011-10-01T12:26:00.049-04:00

There is perhaps no stronger ally of the numbers than currency. These twin forces of evil have been conspiring against humanity for all of human history, perhaps as far back as the Toba population bottleneck. Today, the numero-financial conspiracy is conspiring to attack the innocent citizens of Kenya. Since January of this year, the numbers have been devaluing the value of the Kenyan shilling

"Sesame Street" To Further Indoctrinate Kids With Numerism

2011-09-29T18:28:00.003-04:00

I've always said that the Children's Television Workshop is deep in the pocket of Big Digit. It should be pretty obvious, what with every single "Sesame Street" episode being sponsored by a number, and their casting of a blatant arithmomaniac in a recurring role. But now, this "educational" "television" "show" is going well beyond filling our childrens' heads with numbers, colors, and

We Must Not Allow A Captured Asteroid Gap!

2011-09-27T17:46:00.004-04:00

It all started with the Chinese and their plan to capture a near-Earth asteroid and put it into orbit around the Earth. What exactly they plan to do with, say, Asteroid 2008 EA9 when they capture it in 2049 is unclear, but this is really beside the point. The point is that they will have an asteroid, and we won't. Thankfully, United Statesian science is on the case! Astronomist and infamous

Space Weather Forecast: Bring A Space Umbrella (To Space)

2011-09-25T18:44:00.056-04:00

Space meteorologists have issued a new space-weather forecast for the not-so distant space-future, and the outlook is full of storms. Space storms. According to a study published in last month's Geophysical Research Letters decrease in solar activity over the next few decades will deplete our solar system's precious heliosphere, leaving us less protected against dangerous galactic cosmic rays.

Math Teacher's Victory Garden: A Sign of Impending Doom?

2011-09-24T12:12:00.082-04:00

A frightening piece of Internet came to my attention across the Internet tubes this evening. After a lengthy and dramatic courtroom drama, the hilariously-named Shelby County Environmental Court Judge Larry Potter has, with a wave of his judicial wand, permitted Memphis-area math teacher Adam Guerrero to keep the urban garden he'd built in his front yard, despite complaints from his neighbors.

Massachusetts Schools Stand Up To Arithmetical Hegemony!

2011-09-21T22:40:00.001-04:00

The Bay State is giving us reason to celebrate tonight! This spring, students from Provincetown to Pittsfield participated in the annual rite of Answerist cruelty known as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). And the results clearly show that these brave students are proverbially sticking it to the proverbial man. Some 82% of Massachusettian schools and a whopping 91% of

Out-Of-Control Satellite To Crash On Thursday. Or Friday. Maybe Saturday.

2011-09-20T23:23:00.000-04:00

If you have not yet invested in a solid titanium umbrella, now may be the best time. Because come this weekend, the skies above your head will be raining satellite parts. NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, launched in 1991 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, will likely be crashing to Earth somewhere between the 57th parallels some time between Thursday and Saturday. NASA cannot be

Science: Time-Traveling Volcanoes Are Trying To Kill Us All!

2011-09-19T22:44:00.001-04:00

A new article in ScienceNow today proposes an absolutely frightening idea: what if volcanic eruptions could travel in time? The article is based on a recent study on the eruption of Iceland's Laki fissure in 1783-1784. In the study, which I didn't read because I was so terrified by the abstract, lead author Anja Schmidt of the University of Leeds and her et als ask the horrifying hypothetical: