There are two competing philosophies (with minor variations between them).* On the one hand, you have the people who believe…
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I wasn’t originally going to say anything about this. There are many people, much more versed in the ideas than…
Continuing with my series on the tactics of denialists, I present forced ambiguity and cherry picking. These are two tactics…
This question was posed by Beth in our first SkepticInk podcast[1] and I hope I don’t steal the thunder from…
I finished reading American Gods last night and I borrow this discussion from near the end of the book. If…
A reviewer of our book, 13 Reasons To Doubt, at Amazon has claimed Every author is a deluded materialist and materialism…
This is one of my favorite arguments from creationists and other anti-science people. Science can’t explain x, therefore all science is…
Several years ago (I say ‘several’ and that’s what we’re going stick with!), something relatively important happened in my life.…
I’ve decided that, in order to better represent the position of science and skepticism, to create a series of standard…
I’ve used this phrase a lot in my review of Darwin’s Doubt.* Suffice to say that I was shocked in my…