Year in and year out, The Amazing Meeting (TAM) hosts one of the most outstanding group of speakers and workshops of any conference related to scientific skepticism. This year is no exception, and one of the speakers I am most excited to hear (and hopefully meet in person) is Susan Jacoby.
Category Politics
So, apparently the chief sponsor of the SOPA bill (aka Stop Online Piracy Act aka the Let the Government Censor…
My fellow SINner Russell Blackford has put up a post called “Down syndrome, disability, academic freedom” that he is getting a lot of flack about.
In it, he defended the rights of Professor D Gareth Jones of Otago University to publish an academic paper called “Testing times: do new prenatal tests signal the end of Down syndrome?” In this open-access article, Professor Jones and his co-author (a student) discuss the current state of prenatal screening for Down Syndrome (DS) in New Zealand and possible implications.
This is the second installment of my five part series on what we know (and don’t know) about intelligence and religion. Inspired by questions about and challenges to a video I was in, particularly questions about my statement that the religious are not more or less intelligent than the non-religious. In part one, I introduced the series by briefly discussing some of the very diverse areas of one’s life that are impacted by your religious belief system.
Well, it’s January again here in Oklahoma (and everywhere else on Earth, I suppose). That means two things happening –…
As you have heard, President Obama was sworn into office for his second term today (and well done on emphasizing…
(Actually, it’s more like Science 1 bazillion, Homeopathy 0, but I digress.) Excellent news out of Australia, where a father…
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I’m sure most of the Skeptic Ink reading crowd is familiar with the controversy surrounding WinShape, Chick-fil-A’s charitable arm. If…
One thing that never fails to amuse-enrage-confuse-amaze me is human behavior. I’ve now studied it for almost half of my…