Monthly Archives: July 2015

Meeting creationists on their own terms: understanding the Genesis flood

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Fallacy Man

In this post, I am going to do something highly atypical for a science blog: I am going to talk about theology. I want to be very clear about why I am doing this and why you should pay attention … Continue reading →

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Debunking “10 scientific studies proving GMOs can be harmful to human health”

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Fallacy Man

I recently stumbled across an article titled “10 Scientific Studies Proving GMOs Can Be Harmful To Human Health.” This article was written by Collective Evolution, which is a site that is right up there with Natural News and Whale.to for … Continue reading →

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10 hypocrisies/double standards of the anti-vaccine movement

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Fallacy Man

The anti-vaccine movement is full of all sorts of inaccurate claims, bizarre views, and  distorted facts. This dissociation with reality often causes anti-vax arguments to conflict with one another. Therefore, in this post I am going to describe 10 anti-vax … Continue reading →

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Yes, vaccines did save us from disease: a graphic analysis

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Fallacy Man

If you have spent any time reading anti-vaccine pages, then you have inevitably come across graphs like Figure 1 (below) which claim that death rates were already declining prior to vaccines, and, therefore “vaccines did not save us from disease.” … Continue reading →

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