My family still live in the Tweed Heads area where I spent my teens until I was old enough to escape to greener pastures. Although my Mother has some out there beliefs such as the reality of ghosts, psychics and varieties of magical thinking, thankfully our family are all vaccinated. However due to the ignorance […]
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Cross-posted from The Carapace Jeremy Irons presents a compelling argument against the death penalty. I have little to add to it except that if money is of more concern to you than human life, you ought to know that it costs more money in trials and appeals (due process that is the right of anyone) […]
A common device new age products use is the method of keeping their descriptions wafer thin. The Secret mastered the use of getting people to read an entire book under the general guise of the powers of wishful thinking. So when a book, religion, or in this case a self help philosophy can cram in […]
So, I’m back to making YouTube videos about evolutionary biology and its misinformed critics after a long hiatus. This new one is all about Stephen C. Meyer, a Discovery Institute fellow who’s been the darling of the intelligent design movement after his most recent book, Signature in the Cell, was hyped to the Moon and […]
Imagine my shock when I found out that my blog was selected as one of ten finalists in National Science Week’s Big Blog Theory science blogging competition (well, if you can, that is — I’m not sure most people have the capacity to feel that amount of shock at any one time, and I wouldn’t want to […]
Cross posted on Anadders A recent episode of the Atheist Experience has made me aware of one of the most ridiculous arguments for Christianity ever. It tries to take apart the meaning of some Chinese characters to show that the ancient Chinese knew the story of Genesis. From this it’s supposed to follow that Genesis […]
Pseudo-cross posted from Homologous Legs Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a perfect, perfect example of non-terrible fanfiction (stories about and within the context of other authors’ fictional universes, written by fans of those universes). Set in an alternative universe to the books, it imagines the consequences of Harry Potter being raised to […]
Original blogged at A Drunken Madman I just had to blog this. It’s just too absurd to let slip. Did you know that it’s only possible to contract a single disease at a time?
