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Via Phil Plait, a hilarious video from Jon Stewart on how challengers to science do what they do<\/a>. Since I can\u2019t embed it, here are links to it on Hulu<\/a> and on the Daily Show web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Can anyone really say that the real opponents of science that are parodied in the video<\/a> are fundamentally different from mythicists and other denialists?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"