The topic of today’s comic comes to us via one of our readers, Harry Clark. Granted, he sent it in last month, but hey, I’ve been busy. I had written the joke before realizing that the whole PLOS One article was available for reading (shame on me), and as I find myself standing on the [...]
UPDATE: 4/30/2013 – If you’re visiting from the RDF or IFLS… Hello! Welcome! I’m so sorry. I’d like to head this post off with a disclaimer: This post is really old. Ancient by internet standards. I’m fully aware of all the problems this version of the Red Flags has. I know how weak the “Doctor” panel [...]
Read The Intro Read Part One We now find ourselves in Part Two, where Craig comes face to face to face with the Ghost of Woo Research, a brutal tag team that addresses the issues with serious research on a less than serious topic. You’d be better off writing a peer-reviewed journal article on where [...]
Obviously, by today’s comic you can see that we’re not beyond turning the mirror on ourselves for a bit of exaggeration. That being said let’s turn that mirror right back around and follow up on: What’s the Harm? Part 2. Continuing with reader feedback (whether it’s trolling or not, questions were raised that are worth [...]
“What’s the Harm? (part one!)“ This basic question was posed to us by a reader during one of our recent astrology comics. To summarize, they wanted to know what the beef was with astrology and horoscopes. Why were we ragging on a ‘harmless’ superstition? Where was the vitriol coming from? To that I say, ‘What [...]
OK OK… One more. Last one for a long time, we promise. We just can’t help kick a dead horse. Especially when that dead horse is a superstition that would rather keep things nice and neat rather than at least astronomically accurate. Go fig. Speaking of astronomy, Some more cool stuff: Fellow artist/science blogger Brad [...]
I can handle the truth. I suspect many can, but just don’t care to learn how much bunk they subscribe to everyday. Astronomy is the empirical study of objects and phenomena beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Astrology is horseshit. Excuse me, I should clarify, Astrology is what the US National Science Board, in a written statement, [...]
Let it be known that as of January 17th, 2011: ‘Carl Sagan‘, or in this case ‘Sagan‘, can now be used as a verb. To Sagan is to wistfully ponder upon or wax poetic about the cosmos. Webster’s Dictionary, take note. What with the recent Astrology news, I scrapped the previous astrology comic I had [...]
Babies are stupid. Explaining the intricacies of the world to a baby is like explaining an action movie to a girl. They have no frame of reference. This is by no fault of their own, mind you, they just haven’t developed the necessary skills yet and are way too distracted by jingly shiny things. Girls [...]
Today’s comic not only introduces a new character, Bertrand Russell’s Teapot, but points a giggling finger at the lack of plausibility in homeopathic claims. Homeopathy is part of a collection of pseudoscientific modalities doctors like Dr. Mark Crislip, MD of Quackcast like to call Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, or SCAM. When you buy a homeopathic cold remedy [...]