Maybe Weinberg wasn’t as accurate as he could have been, but his statement remains true to a certain degree. Some times evil is done without invoking a god; but it is always done with the psychological set of tools that characterizes religion.
Category Skepticism and Science
Why manspreading? Because humans are more attracted to individuals displaying their bodies expansively, because it increases one’s romantic desirability.
Graphic warning labels on cigarette packs are associated with freedom threat perceptions directly and reactance indirectly
Isn’t it funny that, just like creationists, some vegans exist today thanks to an evolutionary process they insist on denying?
Porn users have just been vindicated. We already knew the porn-sexist trope to be BS, but it’s always nice to have it backed up with peer reviewed evidence.
None of the people who’re on the bandwagon to smear Richard-Dawkins do it for click bait. They do it out of hate. Plain and simple, visceral, old fashioned hate.
I really wonder where did all of your critical thinking skills went, Novella, because you’re so wrong on so many levels, it’s just shameful.
Thought crimes are coming back and NECSS wants to make sure you know it. If you can’t disagree with the host, is it even worth speaking at such a venue?
Skeletons showed *unmistakable signs of violent death*. The finding represents warfare among prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
At some point Charlie Hebdo chose not to draw Muhammad any longer… or so we were told. But it isn’t true:
Contrary to what vegans claim (or want us to conclude), going veg is bad for animals, our health and the environment.
Let’s recall the words of Pope Francis exactly a year ago, when he *advocated* violence in the name of god just after the terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo:
Artist Kukuruyo recently summed up affirmative action in just one cartoon frame.
Although it could be counterintuitive, these diets have a greater negative impact on the environment:
The group ‘Por la Anarquía’ claimed responsibility for the attacks in a patchwork quilt that echoes profoundly ignorant and terribly unscientific memes:
This is a very good opportunity to remind ourselves that even the finest skeptic can be convinced with appeals to emotion and that it can affect his critical thinking skills
I’m sorry, I won’t tiptoe around Islam or any other superstition with a sacred book that literally advocates for the suffering of others, I won’t give any irrational beliefs special treatment — that’s religious privilege, and those who endulge it have a share of responsability in the state of affairs today.
There’s no evidence orcas suffer in captivity — we don’t have shared behaviors that we can interpret, it’s all telepathy.
I have the *right* to dress up however I want, and if that offends someone, that’s their problem — I won’t be held accountable for the teeny tiny whiny feelings of other people, just like I don’t hold anyone else responsible for my own feelings.
One study found that colorectal cancer mortality doesn’t differ between vegetarians and nonvegetarians. Another study found that the rate of colorectal cancer is *higher* among vegetarians than in nonvegetarians.