I talk about the psychology of belief on this week’s “The Thinking Atheist” show.
Category Religion
I’ll be on an upcoming podcast from Seth “The Thinking Atheist” – details within.
In which I talk about some of the skepticism and religion related research my lab presented recently.
In which you learn about doomsday cults and cognitive dissonance via satire.
In which one of my students asks the question, “If we know how easily memory is manipulated and falsified, can the Gospels possibly be considered to be accurate records of the life of Jesus?”
In which I take a look at the supposed devil-worshippers who want to put a monument of Baphomet on the Oklahoma state capitol, and find them to be not very “Satanic” in the common understanding of the term.
In which the world of faith healing is explored, and the crimes of it’s proponents detailed.
In which the reprehensible and pseudoscientific “cure” for homosexuality, reparative therapy, is shown to have gone worldwide.
In which I review a skeptical look at the various natural explanations that have been put forth for the Star of Bethlehem over the past couple thousand years or so.
12-step programs like Alcoholic Anonymous are the most widespread type of treatment for substance abuse, but are they the most effective?