Just over a year ago, Brian Sapient of the Rational Response Squad and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit against spoon-bending Israeli psychic Uri Geller and his corporation, Explorologist. Sapient had prepared and posted a video showing skeptic James… Continue Reading
Global warming “scientists” are not necessarily wrong to suggest that large-scale industrialization is affecting climate patterns. They are guilty, though, of jumping to dramatic conclusions based on insufficient supporting data. It turns out that global weather and climate patterns are… Continue Reading
A friend is taking a class in psychology through the local college. It seems that while discussing the subject of IQ tests, the professor told her class (which included my friend) that Bill Clinton had an IQ of 187 and… Continue Reading
After blowing the doors off of the academic establishment for its Nazi-like suppression of intelligent design theory in biology departments, Ben Stein and the producers of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed may want to pick up the banner by these folks.… Continue Reading
Many have made this point before me. But adherence to irrational supernatural beliefs can be deadly. Like when mobs go after “witches.” Not black-hat-and-broomstick witches like you’d see at Halloween or in a Harry Potter movie, but animistic witches, practicing… Continue Reading
I’m not normally into poetry. But this poem that Andrew Sullivan found really got to me. I bet it’ll get to you, too.
Pray at the pump. God will have mercy on us and lower gas prices. These people are serious — they have protests of gas prices by holding hands in a circle around gas pumps in suburban D.C. and pray, with… Continue Reading
And properly so. Creationism is not science, and no one should award degrees in it. So says a commissioner of higher education in the State of Texas and I’m hard-pressed to find a single reason to disagree. Especially since, if… Continue Reading
A little bit less than 1,900 people died as a result of Hurricane Katrina, all but two of them in the New Orleans and southern Mississippi region. Yet the landfall of a cyclone in Yangon, Myanmar, which has killed over… Continue Reading
After all, it’s important to have an open mind. It’s important to be willing to evaluate new ideas on their face and not discard them out of hand. Skepticism doesn’t mean that you close your mind to different ideas. So.… Continue Reading