SansPretense

For any of you keeping up on today’s major blog story, I thought I would make some comments from the perspective of a scientist on the controversy. 
Science relies on open debate.   When I first saw the story, my instinct was to give the scientists the benefit of the doubt: many discussions within a scientific research [...]

Okay, not really.  But if I were to intentionally pinch a baby today…really, really, hard (maybe leave a slight mark), and tomorrow I lash out and pretend to be outraged at my neighbor for spanking his kid, well, I guess that would sort of make me a hypocrite right?   
Hypocrite – a good word to describe [...]

I was thinking earlier about the whole “Go Green” thing.  I’ll start with what triggered the thought.  
Yesterday, after picking up my daughter from my mom’s house, we were in the car and my daughter mentioned that her pinky finger hurt.  Naturally, the next question was why?  Did you fall?  Did someone hit you?  All of the motherly [...]