Daily Blend: Saturday, July 30, 2011

Taser MAUL

• Phil Plait blows a gaping hole in recent Forbes climate denialist article.

• Meet MAUL: Taser Intl comes up with a brand new way to shock people at a distance, shotgun-style [pictured].
  (via The Agitator)

• Also, new research reveals Taser Intl’s safety tests were skewed into unreliability. Shocking.
  (via The Agitator)

• WorldNetDaily is shocked – shocked! – that scientists would change their minds after finding new evidence. My friend Diaphanus nails it: “Science can't win with those people. If it changes, it is an unreliable dogma and is no better than those obsolete religions, and therefore is no good. If it stays the same, it is a dogma just like religion, and therefore is no good.”
  (via Diaphanitas)

• Creepy old man with camera in a kids’ park turns out to be grampa taking pics of his grandson.
  (via The Agitator)

• 18 things you need to believe in to be a Republican.

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Tags: Forbes • Roy Spencer • global warming denialism • Taser International • tasers • MAUL • Archaeopteryx • Xiaotingia zhengi • WorldNetDaily • WND • Pocatello, ID • Republicans • GOP • Iron Knee