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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Skeptical Genetics: Jen McCreight’s Talk at Skepticon 4
December 6th, 2011 
Greta Christina I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: Jen McCreight (of BlagHag fame) is one of the best speakers we have in this movement. She’s not a slamming powerhouse of swelling oratory: she’s just really clear, chatty, friendly, funny, approachable, and excellent at conveying complicated ideas clearly without talking down to her audience. I [...]
From the Archives: Why Near Death Experiences Are a Terrible Argument for the Soul
October 14th, 2011 Greta Christina Since I moved to the Freethought Blogs network, I have a bunch of new readers who aren’t familiar with my greatest hits from my old, pre-FTB blog. So I’m linking to some of them, about one a day, to introduce them to the new folks. Today’s archive treasure: Why Near Death Experiences Are a Terrible [...]
I have my archives!
September 16th, 2011 Greta Christina I have my archives from my old blog! They’re here! With comments and everything! They’re even in the right categories! Images and videos didn’t make it over, and there are a handful of posts that didn’t make it and that I’ll have to put in by hand. (For some reason, it didn’t like my posts [...]
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8 Comments »The Case of the Missing Bisexual
May 17th, 2011 Greta Christina This piece was originally published on the Blowfish Blog. I never reprinted it here, for reasons that now escape me. But the Blowfish Blog archives are apparently no longer on the Internets, and the original piece is no longer available. So in the interest of completism and making all my published works accessible, I’m going [...]
Sex Addiction or Sexual Compulsion?
January 18th, 2011 Greta Christina This piece was originally published on the Blowfish Blog. I wasn’t planning to reprint it here, since after it came out some errors in it were called to my attention (specifically on the neuroscience of addiction). But the Blowfish Blog archives are apparently no longer on the Internets, and the original piece is no longer [...]
The Fat Positive Feminist Skeptical Diet, Phase 2, Part 2: How Do You Know When Enough Is Enough?
November 17th, 2010 Greta Christina This is Part 2 of a two-part post. In yesterday’s piece, I talked about the process of switching from weight loss to weight maintenance… including the strange attraction of the process of losing weight, and the challenges of letting go of that process and embracing lifelong weight management. Today, I talk about how you even [...]
The Fat Positive Feminist Skeptical Diet, Phase 2: Switching from Loss to Maintenance
November 16th, 2010 Greta Christina I’m done. I am officially done losing weight. I’ve reached my target weight. Or, to be more accurate: I have reached the bottom of my target weight range. Or, to be even more accurate than that: I have made a final decision as to what my target weight range should even be (something I wasn’t [...]
Born or Learned? Sexuality, Science, and Party Lines
October 18th, 2010 Greta Christina On Sunday, AOL news — perhaps not the best source of science reporting on this beautiful green earth — reported on a study supposedly showing that gay parents are more likely to have gay kids. Unfortunately, some of the responses I’ve seen from the LGBT community have focused, less on whether the science in question [...]
Why Near Death Experiences Are a Terrible Argument for the Soul
August 18th, 2010 Greta Christina This piece was originally published on Alternet. “But when people are near death, they have out- of- body experiences. Some of them, anyway. Doesn’t this prove that there’s an immaterial soul, separate from the body, that leaves the body and survives when we die?” As I’ve written before: Most arguments for spiritual belief that I [...]
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