Researchers catch Lake Victoria fish in act of evolving 
Flirting with Palin earns Pakistani president a fatwa:
A radical Muslim prayer leader said the president shamed the nation for "indecent gestures, filthy remarks, and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt."
Speaking of Palin: Ron Numbers on Palin's creationism 
Pseudo-scientist Mike Adams compares Western Medicine to the subprime mortgage clusterfuck - Mike writes for Natural News aka woo central. And in a bit of wishful thinking, he writes this gem of an article entitled, Why the Institutions of Western Finance and Western Medicine are Both Doomed to Fail. To illustrate just how far gone this guy is, here's an excerpt:
"The fraud of Western Medicine is that everybody can get healthy by taking fictitious patented chemicals (pharmaceuticals) rather than addressing fundamental issues of nutrition, exercise and exposure to consumer chemicals."
With logic like that, I wonder if he's related to Neil Adams.
Jenny McCarthy goes after the presidential candidates - Last year McCain said there was no doubt that a link between vaccines and autism exists. But Jenny says that McCain opted out of meeting with her at the last minute. According to the news sources, McCain denied her requests "after learning there?s no hard medical evidence linking vaccines and autism." Man, I hope this is true because at least Obama has already spoken up recently and stated "I am not for selective vaccination. I believe that it will bring back deadly diseases, like polio." I'll take it.
Also, I previously blogged about a letter to the editor I wrote to my local newspaper concerning the antivaccination movement. Today an edited version of that article appeared in the paper.
New research casts doubts on calorie restriction?
Atheism 101 reading list
Sony promotes The God Delusion! - Dawkins bestselling book was prominent in the promotional setup for the Sony Reader ? an e-book reader much like Amazon?s Kindle: 
YouTube censors another cracker desecrating video - Only this time it's not even a Eucharist, just an arbitrary cracker. 
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Answers in Genesis reviews Religulous - Somehow I doubt they'll declare it a must-see. They're still sore over having. . .
". . .experienced Maher?s subterfuge and dishonesty last year in gaining access to the Creation Museum and AiG President Ken Ham for a (fictitious) documentary on the ?cultural landscape of the United States.?
This is ironic considering how fine they were with the far more elaborate subterfuge by the makers of the anti-evolution mockumentary "Expelled." Pot. Kettle. Black. Bullshit!
Do TV, movie, and game ratings really do any good?
AND NOW FOR A MOMENT OF SCIENCE:
New Species Thanks To Different Ways Of Seeing - "A study of brightly coloured fish has now demonstrated that this has less to do with aesthetics than with the sensitivity of female eyes, which varies as a result of adaptation to the environment. Females more attuned to blue will choose a metallic blue mate, while those better able to see red will prefer a bright red male. These mating preferences can be strong enough to drive the formation of new species ? provided that habitat diversity is not reduced by human activities."
Short RNAs May Have Contributed To New Species - "MicroRNAs, the tiny molecules that fine-tune gene expression, were first discovered in 1993. But it turns out they've been around for a billion years.
Evidence reported in Nature on October 1 by scientists in the lab of Whitehead Member and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator David Bartel provides a window into the early evolution of these key regulators, placing their origin within the earliest of animal lineages. The research also suggests that microRNAs present early on have undergone extensive changes, which likely have altered their functions across various lineages."
New Dinosaur Species Had Bony Frill And Horns - "The fossils revealed a herd of dinosaurs that perished in a catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago. The animals are characterized by a bony frill on the back of the skull ornamented with smaller horns. They also had large bony structures above their nose and eyes which lends them their name: Pachyrhinosaurus (thick-nosed lizard). These structures probably supported horns of keratin."
Compact Fluorescent Lights: Mercury Problems? - "A team of Yale scientists has found that certain countries and some U.S. states stand to benefit from the use of compact fluorescent lighting more than others in the fight against global warming. Some places may even produce more mercury emissions by switching from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent lighting."
HIV/AIDS Pandemic Began Around 1900 - "New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in colonial Africa set the stage for the HIV/AIDS pandemic."
Teens With Certain Gene Have Delinquent Peers - "Birds of a feather flock together, according to the old adage, and adolescent males who possess a certain type of variation in a specific gene are more likely to flock to delinquent peers, according to a landmark study led by Florida State University criminologist Kevin M. Beaver."
Original source: http://skepacabra.wordpress.com/?p=681
