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Freethought #FridayReads – Galileo’s Middle Finger

By Damion Reinhardt • Sep 18, 2015 • No comments

Alice Dreger’s newest book is essentially a memoir, a record of her personal experiences as an activist and an academic.…

Don’t Date Robots

By Damion Reinhardt • Sep 17, 2015 • 9 comments

When it comes to the ethics of robotics, it is hard to think of any conundrum which Isaac Asimov has…

GOP Science Denialism (Part 3)

By Damion Reinhardt • Sep 16, 2015 • No comments

In previous posts we have looked at the top GOP contenders on the science of evolution and the science of…

GOP Science Denialism (Part 2)

By Damion Reinhardt • Sep 10, 2015 • 2 comments

In my last post we considered the GOP front-runners on a couple of well-settled scientific questions regarding the age of the…

GOP Science Denialism (Part 1)

By Damion Reinhardt • Sep 9, 2015 • 11 comments

Remember this choice moment from just a couple of election cycles ago? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Cc8t3Zd5E If you thought that was embarrassing, just…

A Benevolent Hypocrisy

By Damion Reinhardt • Sep 6, 2015 • 7 comments

It has become quite popular of late for freethinkers to go after Christians for the moral offense of hypocrisy, that…

How to attack an anti-equality activist

By Damion Reinhardt • Sep 3, 2015 • 2 comments

When public servants go on strike, here in the U.S., the usual pattern is that Republicans castigate them and Democrats…

Would I Pray to Make a Religious Person Happy? Probably.

By Damion Reinhardt • Sep 2, 2015 • 3 comments

Over at Patheos Atheist, this has become something of a burning question. Facciani, Broaddus, and Mousavi have weighed in so…

Map of the Week – Suffrage in 1919

By Damion Reinhardt • Aug 26, 2015 • No comments

Every time the U.S. makes a great leap forward in civil rights, there are bound to be grumblers. I happen…

Private data and public shaming

By Damion Reinhardt • Aug 23, 2015 • 14 comments

So there has been another leak of private data. Potentially damaging information, the sort that ruins careers or even lives. As always,…

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