It looks like my new blog site is up and running over at Patheos. Hopefully you can join me there,…
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It comes with much sadness, in many ways, that I say goodbye to SIN (though I will no doubt continue to sin) over the next few days. I have been offered a place at Patheos and have accepted. Patheos is a big old network, and I am flattered to have been offered a place. The decision was based purely on needs, and the fact that, one way or another, there will be changes to my life that require me to make certain decisions (yes, that is cryptic, but that’s the way it has to be right now).
Skeptic Ink is proud to announce a new addition to the network: Jon Webster, whose blog is known as The…
On behalf of SIN, your friendly group of skeptical bloggers, I created some time ago a weekly “newspaper” which aggregates…
In a statement issued at the weekend, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of Niloy Neel, the fourth humanist blogger in Bangladesh to be hacked to death by Islamists this year, and called on the Government to do more to prevent further attacks. The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed his call, and reiterated its own similar desire to see further violence prevented.
The end of term has just come and gone and things at work have been insanely busy, with new added…
I have banned two people here. One was a Catholic priest who dogged me all over the internet, one-starring my…
At SIN we have a not-so-new-anymore blogger who as joined us: fellow Brit The Flying Scotsman, James MacDonald. Welcome to…
The Skeptic Ink Network has always kept current and perhaps even ahead of the game in comparison to similarly themed…
Attackers in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have hacked to death a US-Bangladeshi blogger whose writings on religion angered Islamist hardliners.
Avijit Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was attacked as he walked back from a book fair with his wife, who was also hurt in the attack.
As ever, there are lots of pies in the oven, with my fingers still in them… Here is what to…
The Odds Must Be Crazy is a new addition to the Skeptic Ink Network. It’s opening piece is actually a post of mine which fits nicely into their niche: a post on prayer and the coincidences involved in daily life which can be confused with successful, answered prayer. In mathematical terms, this can be explained by Littlewood’s Law.
I am moving house on Friday, so I will be a little quieter than normal. And yes, this has meant…
I have a very busy summer lined up, what with moving house, trying to finish my zombie book and trying…
Shane Greenup has designed something which looks brilliant, and will help the internet become more intellectually robust in the future, I hope. It is a browser add-on called rbutr. Here is what he has to say about it:
There have been some reports of the RSS feed for this blog being dodgy at the moment. There have been…
Here at the Skeptic Ink Network, A Tippling Philosopher is doing quite well as a blog, thanks to main to…
Here is an email on the back channels from fellow SINner David, who runs a great blog at SIN at…
In connection to the rant I made about Randy Everist and his Nazi, unfair and unjustified comment strategy he has on his blog, here is a post from the Popular Science website which a Twitter follower and friend from Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub sent me. Hopefully they won’t mind me posting it here. Some interesting research regarding commenting and negativity bias:
Spoiler: I might swear.
I have a fairly liberal attitude to commenting here, and I don’t particularly police it that much. Dissenting views are utterly vital to being sure that you are warranted in your own beliefs and views.
Well, I got involved in a comment thread on the Possible Worlds blog of Randy Everist. My goodness. I have never seen such comment nazism.