Mar 28 2007

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Politics, science, and … toons?

Posted at 5:32 pm in Antiscience, Cool stuff, Debunking, Politics, Science, Skepticism

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"I’m not bad… I’m just drawn that way."

Continuing on the theme of the political humpery of science, I’m pleased to forward a message from the Union of Concerned Scientists:

Three top cartoonists have joined with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to kick off the organization’s second annual “Science Idol” scientific integrity cartoon contest to draw humorous attention to a very serious issue: political interference in science.

Can you draw? Are you sick of the way the White House has bastardized reality? Then pick up a pen, put on your tin foil hat, draw a cartoon, and submit it to Science Idol.

If I could draw, I’d be all over this. Sadly, I’m only gifted with this incredible writing talent.

13 Responses to “Politics, science, and … toons?”

  1. # John W. Kennedyon 28 Mar 2007 at 6:36 pm

    The link is bad. With no “http://”, it’s trying to find the UCS website inside the BA blog.

  2. # Melusineon 28 Mar 2007 at 7:06 pm

    John, click on zee picture and things happen…
    http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/science_idol/

  3. # Stuarton 28 Mar 2007 at 10:37 pm

    If I could draw, I’d be all over this. Sadly, I’m only gifted with this incredible writing talent.

    Don’t forget your other gift, overwhelming modesty! ;-)

  4. # csrsteron 28 Mar 2007 at 10:53 pm

    I can’t draw either, but if I could I’d be trying to think of a good picture to go with the caption “… actually the tree of life is more like a Bush”.

  5. # Gary Mcleodon 29 Mar 2007 at 1:26 am

    Rats! I can draw cartoons, I’ve even been published, but this is only open to US citizens. Unfair! :(

  6. # DrFlimmeron 29 Mar 2007 at 2:49 am

    If I could draw, I’d be all over this. Sadly, I’m only gifted with this incredible writing talent.

    Nobody’s perfect! And a BA-blog only filled with cartoons wouldn’t be as interesting and informative as it is now.
    I’m reading your book right now. And I am laughing more or less all the time. You did it very well, indeed!

  7. # George L Smython 29 Mar 2007 at 5:04 am

    I’ve always been a big fan of Non Sequitur, and yesterday was the best comic I’ve ever seen him create. It can be found at http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2007/nq070328.gif.

  8. # Joel Buttonon 29 Mar 2007 at 7:14 am

    If you can’t draw, just make ASCII art!

    ~Joel

  9. # Amstradon 29 Mar 2007 at 7:14 am

    I kind of like this one from XKCD:

    http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/beliefs.jpg

  10. # ABRon 29 Mar 2007 at 7:15 am

    Actually, Stuart, I’d say BA’s other major talent involves movies and TV trivia, hence the quote from Jessica Rabbit above.

  11. # hale_boppon 29 Mar 2007 at 11:41 am

    If you can’t draw, use tools such as the cartoon playground at Funny Times.

    http://www.funnytimes.com/playground/

    Rob

  12. # Thomason 29 Mar 2007 at 7:13 pm

    Cartoons can be dangerous. Just remember that most of the Anti-Science Fundies started out with a copy of “The Picture Bible.”

  13. # Gary Ansorgeon 01 Apr 2007 at 6:35 am

    I always liked Abe Lincolns teaching story. It goes like this:

    Assume you have a jackass with four legs and a tail and you decide to call the tail a leg. Now, how many legs does the jackass have?

    Answer: Four!
    Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one,,,

    See, we’ve been trying to teach people to see for a very long time.

    GAry 7

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