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Miley Cyrus has canceled another concert and remains hospitalized for a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics. A representative for the 21-year-old singer said in a statement that Cyrus canceled her Wednesday performance at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The singer also posted on Twitter that the hospital will not release her and apologized Wednesday. Cyrus canceled a Tuesday show in Kansas City, Mo. Last week, she canceled a stop on the tour for her Bangerz album in Charlotte, N.C., because she had the flu. Her representative said Friday’s show in Nashville, Tenn., “is still scheduled to go on as planned.”

TV’s “Science Guy” Bill Nye said he underestimated the impact of a February debate in Kentucky on evolution and creationism that drew a large online audience. When Nye agreed to the debate at The Creation Museum with its founder Ken Ham, he said he believed it would draw about as much attention as presentations he makes on college campuses. But the Feb. 4 event was widely promoted by the museum, “and soon it seemed like everyone I met was talking about it,” Nye wrote in a letter published in the May/June issue of Skeptical Inquirer. The Creation Museum said 750,000 computers logged in to watch the debate on the Web, and thousands of groups gathered to watch, putting the viewer estimate into the millions.Nye wrote that despite no score being kept during the debate with Ham, by “a strong majority of accounts, I bested him.” Nye also addressed criticism he received from fellow scientists who said the debate would only promote Ham’s ministry and creationism, which teaches the origin story of the Bible as natural history. Ham and other creationists believe that the universe was created by God about 6,000 years ago. “But, I held strongly to the view that it was an opportunity to expose the well-intending Ken Ham and the support he receives from his followers as being bad for Kentucky, bad for science education, bad for the U.S., and thereby bad for humankind,” Nye wrote. In a posting on his Facebook page Wednesday, Ham took issue with that statement. “Bill Nye wants his anti-God religion of naturalism imposed on generations of students - now that’s what’s bad for humankind!” Ham said.