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Monday, August 27, 2012

You Go Science Guy!

This video of Bill Nye ("The Science Guy"),  has received a little media attention because Bill addresses biology deniers:


The graph below (from 2006 in the journal Science) shows the relative U.S. ranking in the global acceptance of evolution.  If you squint, we're just up from the bottom.  (Good thing we have Turkey!)



If you're a health physics denier (of the hormesis stripe), you aren't much different than someone who is in denial over evolution.  In the case of biology, sex cell DNA mutations lead to the evolution of new species.  In health physics, somatic cell DNA mutations lead to the evolution of new cell-types (cancer).  The cartoon below could have included a health physics frame:


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