You could hit them with Anti-Math: [link]

You could hit them with Anti-Math

Hee! That's actually fairly clever.

It seems I'm anti-science because, in a discussion of a mainstream newspaper article about a talk about a scientific paper that hasn't been published yet, I said that some of the conclusions discussed in the newspaper article don't seem like they could be justified by the data considered in the study. I disputed something that Science Says! (I'm already suspect in this forum because I'm religious, and thus clearly deficient in critical thinking and logic.) (And most of the people arguing against me REALLY do not understand how science works -- they're saying things like "science is our only source of objective truth." ::headdesk::)

I join you in your headdesking, Hil. We really need to start teaching logic in schools much earlier, because it sounds like those folk really don't understand it.

they're saying things like "science is our only source of objective truth." ::headdesk::

The number of laypeople I've run into (on multiple sides of science/religion arguments) who have no freakin' clue what science really is boggles the mind, truly.

The number of laypeople I've run into (on multiple sides of science/religion arguments) who have no freakin' clue what science really is boggles the mind, truly.

Yes. And this one isn't even a science/religion argument. It's a science/bad science argument. (Or, rather, bad science reporting, since we're arguing about a study that hasn't even been published yet.) And once it is published, peer review is not an ultimate designation of truth! Peer review is a designation of "this is not utter crap," and "someone else might be interested in this."

Oh, look, someone let idiots onto the internet. Poor Hil that you have to run into them like that.

{{{{vw&Toto}}}}

Whew, Askye, I'm glad you didn't get mowed down on your quest for dinner.

Aimee, your hair is very sexy.

I'm reading an article about Universal Design in the Home and Garden section of the Times, and I so want so many of these things, especially the kitchen ones. Combination of being short and having frequently limited arm movement makes my kitchen only about half usable. There are cabinets on top of my fridge that I have never once opened, and my counters seem to have been designed for people six feet tall.

I'm somewhat skeptical, though, of this "chromatherapy" bathtub, which uses colored lights to change the color of the water, which is supposed to be "healing." [link]

Step away from the crazies, Hil.

Ick. I've been feeling hungover and headachy and nauseated all day because I made the mistake of having a glass of red wine last night. I guess red wine is officially off my list. I keep wanting to curl up in a ball and go back to sleep, but instead I keep drifting back to the bathroom hoping I'm not going to get sick. I think maybe I'll take a bath. A friend gave me Lush for my birthday, so might as well take advantage of wanting to be in the bathroom.

My new hair. [link]

GAW-JUS!

As befits an Empress.

I just ordered a new backpack. One of these, just goes over one shoulder and is supposed to be more ergonomic. [link] I went with the blue polka dot print. There was another one that looked a bit sturdier, but it was also just so completely not my style that I knew I'd hate using it.