Here are a few of hard questions; Useful if you ever want conjure some serious cognitive dissonance in the minds of believers you know, do some haunting of your own.
A primatologist claims Chris Ryan has got the facts on bonobos wrong.
Skeptic Ink warmly welcomes TheOddsMustBeCrazy to the network!
Almost exactly two years ago I posted a critical analysis of a talk given by Rebecca Watson at a skeptic…
These tracks are stylistic perversions of mainstream songs playing as much on the intrinsic alienation of the human condition as on the saccharine FM tunes they ridicule.
When I realized Locke was Zoe, I was disgusted to see she was still playing the same games. Stealing, cheating, lying and claiming to be victimized by anyone and everyone.
Do we? In this TAM2013 talk, Russell argues we have the “extraordinary evidence.” That is to say, we have the…
I got in trouble for skipping class once in the eighth grade. It was more exciting than you might think.…
In discussions of sexual assault, people are often talking past each other, writing each other off, or battling over who should be assumed correct before the evidence is known. For these reasons, Tavris’s talk was a breath of fresh air.
There is no reason to think discussions over the psychology of belief, including religious belief, are always or usually “acting in bad faith”.