Oil Leaks for Dummies

The dreaded oil leak

Few things are more disturbing to car owners than that first glimpse of an oil stain under where they've parked overnight. Denial comes first – "Someone else left that!" – but, eventually, they realize that the car is "bleeding." The average person's first thought is to Google "What Makes a Car Leak Oil?" If you're lucky, you won't click on the post Tom Lutzenberger put together for eHow.com (now moved to ItStillRuns by Leaf Group). If you're not, well, here's what you'll find...

Science and Religion Compared for Dummies

Science vs. religion, historical context...

Although our staffers put most of their time into searching the 'net for freelancer's factual errors, they do keep their eyes open for logical failings as well. Some months ago, an Antisocial Network researcher ran across some a self-appointed philosopher on HubPages and flagged his profile for future harvests. We already pointed out William J. Prest for his scientific illiteracy once, but heretofore ignored his many posts on conspiracy theories (the Lloyd Pye theory, cryptozoology, chemtrails, fluoridation, GMOs, and other pseudoscience). But we couldn't pass up this steaming pile of twaddle: "Faith in Science as an Objectivist Religion"; not after a copy of "The War on Science" circulated through the office...

Bible Searches for Dummies

Bible Concordance

If it seems that our research staffers here at the Antisocial Network seem to put most of their energy into the Demand Media (now "Leaf Group") websites – eHow and, increasingly, the "niche sites" into which they're shoveling their content like a farmer loading a manure spreader – it's sort of true. For one, many content farms have gone out of business and the other remaining farms are difficult to search. So eHow it is; no problem because it's such a target-rich environment.