Federal Circuit Rules No Link between Autism and Vaccine The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just upheld lower court findings that reject a causal connection between childhood vaccines and the onset of autism. The ruling came in Cedillo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, which was the first of a [...]

Zoologger: Live birth, evolving before our eyes Travel abroad and you are bound to see people doing things a bit differently. If the yellow-bellied three-toed skink were to go wandering, though, it would find members of its own species giving birth in a completely different way. Skinks from the northern highlands of New South Wales [...]

Alien abduction is a phenomenon that many have claimed to have experienced. People who claim to have experienced this phenomenon described the aliens as short with grays skin, frail bodies, large heads with large black eyes, no fur or hair and no visible genitalia. They say that they aliens take them into their crafts, experiment [...]

Falsifiability is very important in science; scientific theories and hypotheses can not be scientific unless they are falsifiable. When creationist finally learn this they attempt to use it to discredit the theory of evolution. Before I tear apart the argument I should explain what falsification is and its relevance in science. If something is unfalsifiable [...]

Video page, comments page, FFreeThinker.

The odds of a single protein forming are *insert really big number here* to 1 Creationists in an attempt to discredit abiogenises or any other scientific field will spout really big numbers in an attempt to make "it" look impossible. Less dishonest creationists will use real statistics but will misrepresent those statistics, others will just [...]

In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose [...]

Flood Geology is a creationist pseudo science that attempts to reconcile the the findings of geologists with the story of Noahs flood in the bible. The premise of flood geology is that 4,500 years ago there was a massive global flood that covered the whole of the earth and killed off most of the animals. [...]

When many people hear about things like genetic modification, geoengineering, etc, many scream "Your playing god!" Well in a sense we are gods. Look at us, look at what we have done, look at what we can do. We can communicate with people on the other side of the world with small devices we hold [...]

Measles Outbreak Triggered by Unvaccinated Child MONDAY, March 22 (HealthDay News) -- What began as a family trip to Switzerland in 2008 ended up as a public health nightmare in California. The family's 7-year-old boy, who was intentionally unvaccinated against measles, was exposed to the virus while traveling in Europe. When he returned home to [...]