I May Have Found My Niche

I've always been trying to find my niche on the internet. I wanted something that could possibly set this blog apart from all the other atheist/secular humanist/liberal/science web logs in the blogosphere.

I really wanted this blog to be my forum against Creationism and other evolutionist positions. However, I am not strong in biology as the contributors to Panda's Thumb or Antievolution. Nor am I strong in cosmology like Phil Plait. And I can only dream to have the legal prowess of Ed Brayton. However, I do have a grasp on thermodynamics, but the Second Law "problem" has been addressed a billion times by scientists with more vigor than me.

But then I stumbled upon Mark Chu-Carroll's comments on a recent paper concerning homeopathic medicine, particularly the "science" of homeopathic dilutions. My strength and passion is in chemical physics. I have been a chemist in a loose sense since I can remember (who hasn't attempted to make gun powder or various polymers at home?), and the physics I know is related mostly to the fraction of a fraction of moles of molecules (sets of at most 500 molecules). That knowledge doesn't apply very well to arguments concerning genetics, population dynamics, and cosmology like most SciCre screeds attempt (and fail, obviously) to address.

So, from MarkCC's blog I found a disturbing peer-reviewed journal from a respectable publisher. Of course, with my knowledge and dealing with non-scientific institutions like AiG or the anti-science of the DI, this comes as a no surprise that people publish idiocy. However, it seems only a few bloggers enter into this new domain of stupidity. Though homeopathy deals with a number of non-chemistry topics, some of the notions utter bullshit espoused by homeopathic healers peddlers do relate to topics within my scope of discussion and direct knowledge.

So, I have created a new label for my posts, and a new scope of this blog. No, I will not stop commenting on religious fanatics and the antics of the IDiots. I will still advocate sound science and comment on bad science. I will also continue interjecting my personal philosophy and political theory throughout. Simply put, expect more details on homeopathic theories from me in the future.

Right now, I have some papers to print and digest.