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False narratives is it?
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Concerned. *Deeply* concerned.
We are deeply concerned by the new @rcgp guidance, which depends on a
number of concerning false narratives spread through...
10 hours ago
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A statement from Dartmouth’s President
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At last we have the perfect statement from a university president who is
strongly pro-free-speech but nevertheless has removed pro-Palestinian
encampments ...
14 hours ago
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Chronicles of Twatrick: Nothing new to report.
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Frankly, I haven't even had the interest to trudge over to Patrick's
compost heap of a Twitter account to see what he's up to; I can simply
report that I a...
1 day ago
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. . . and that’s the trufe!
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What Trumpers tell us (according to Luke Zaleski): This is the actual story
republicans are going with: Trump built the wall and gave us world peace
and th...
3 days ago
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L’hypothèse K.
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«À partir de ce qu’il appelle «l’hypothèse K.», un laisser-faire entraînant
une prolifération technique exponentielle», Aurélien Barrau, astrophysicien
et ...
3 days ago
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Why are you an atheist?
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Some time ago a reader asked me to take a look at Michael Brown’s 7 honest
questions for atheists. I agreed to do so when I had time and said that if
it in...
6 days ago
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Why do Intelligent Design Creationists still lie about junk DNA?
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Intelligent Design Creationists are heavily invested in refuting junk DNA
because it casts doubt on their model of an intelligently designed human.
Over ...
4 weeks ago
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I was interviewed: What Have I Been Putting People Through All These Years?
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By Scott Douglas Jacobsen The interviewer and the hosts were wonderful. No
complaints. I’m just being silly. For years, though, I took to never doing
inter...
3 months ago
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she’s a Christian, a Rational Response
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In 2007, I was slated to interview Ayaan Hirsi Ali at an atheist
convention. We were staying in the same hotel and being cared for by a
security detail ...
5 months ago
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Science, intuition and the "strange inversion of reasoning"
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A few days ago I wrote about scientific thinking as an antidote to intuition.
Not just an alternative to it, but something like the opposite of
intuition...
8 months ago
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Yet Another Crappy Analysis of AI
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Whenever some new breakthrough in AI (artificial intelligence) is made, you
can depend on ignorant naysayers to break out the usual clichés.
We will be to...
1 year ago
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The Great Resignation?
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The latest data confirms the less romantic reality that the record
percentage of Americans quitting their jobs is being driven by turnover
among low-income...
2 years ago
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Sex, Schisms and Pseudo-Scholarship
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We are seeing open warfare between various feminist and other progressive
factions on social media and in the universities. A key divide is between
so-call...
4 years ago
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It's always your political opponents engaging in a culture war
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The art of modern political discourse is to treat whatever you issue you
care about as either the status quo, or what would be considered the status
quo if...
5 years ago
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Friday Cephalopod: I succumb to peer pressure and will mention Octopolis
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Friday Cephalopod: I succumb to peer pressure and will mention Octopolis
Wow. Every person on the planet saw one version or another of this
"Octopolis" st...
6 years ago
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What do Muslims Believe?
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Many believe that the moral guidance provided by religious belief makes us
better people. Many also believe that Islamic religious beliefs are not to
blame...
6 years ago
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Creative Process Vs. Creative Product
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As I nurture a fragile recovery after a long dry spell, I am becoming
mindful of patterns in my creative cycle. This week, I had a pivotal
insight: capital...
7 years ago
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Faith school heads and governors raise concerns about academy religious
takeovers
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Religious leaders are set to steamroll faith schools into massive academy
chains, centralising church control over the state-funded schools.
Related article...
7 years ago
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#ResistTrump today by reading a comic on how to call congress if you have
social anxiety
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Earlier this week we saw what can happen when a bunch of pissed-off voters
call their elected representatives to explain what’s pissing them off:
Congressi...
7 years ago
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How I left Christianity
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I've written about some of this before... I was stationed at Barstow
California back in 1993, and my wife and I had gone to visit my family at
their apartm...
8 years ago
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Le désarroi de l’élève en échec…
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Le désarroi de l’élève en situation d’échec provient de la persistante
fiction de l’« égalité formelle » de tous les élèves devant l’école, des
possibilité...
8 years ago
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Get stuffed
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Valentine’s Day. The annual celebration of grasping sexual manipulation
disguised as cheap sentiment disguised as pesticide-encrusted gas station
roses and...
9 years ago
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Sinners’ Religion
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The below item is part of my "Conversations" series. An atheist and a
Christian visiting a historic California mission Maria: This brick has a
fingerprint ...
9 years ago
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So long, and thanks for all the fish
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by Massimo Pigliucci
Or, as the title of the last Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
wistfully announced: “All good things…”
This is the last Ration...
10 years ago
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La Marche pour la laïcité – nouvelle video et photos
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Premières photos (par nos photographes) de la Marche po […]
10 years ago
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North and South
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It’s raining here, softly but firmly, and Wendy Davis is filibustering in
Texas. She’s speaking in a low, quiet voice in the other tab, talking about
admit...
10 years ago
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RIP Scientiae, 2007-2011
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Dear loyal readers and subscribers,
Scientiae has had a good run, but I think it is time to retire this
carnival, at least for now. We have had declining su...
12 years ago
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Buddhism for Skeptics of Religion
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Buddhism for Skeptics of Religion. A non-Buddhist skeptical atheist with
background in psychology, scientific research, healthcare and mindfulness
meditati...
12 years ago
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Lumpers, Splitters and Noah’s Ark
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One of my father’s frequent pithy comments, one of his stock phrases, was,
“The world is made up of two kinds of people: lumpers and splitters.” And
pala...
13 years ago
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'Impact' crater
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Tonight I attended the twitter-inspired 'Blue skies ahead?' debate in which
science minister Lord Paul Drayson gamely engaged a youthful panel (and
audienc...
14 years ago
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Is belief an ethical act?
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I have debated the issue of god-belief for a long time but honestly it was
mostly an intellectual exercise for me. I don't think the hoary chestnut of
"doe...
15 years ago
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New Pro-Science Think Tank Formed
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New Pro-Science Think Tank Formed
Paul Kurtz, founder of the Center for Inquiry and editor of Free Inquiry,
has opened an office in Washington DC to act a...
17 years ago
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