This isn’t surprising, but it is an excellent example of what not to do if you’re trying to win fame and fortune as a psychic. It should hopefully serve as an object lesson for why one needs to consider the simpler solution when someone claims special knowledge, but honestly, I don’t expect it will change …
Tag Archive: evidence
Jun 08 2011
A few podcasts from this weekend on skepticism and atheism
Meant to get these up on Monday, but I was hoping for a chance to listen to them first. Unfortunately, I’m now on a road trip to PEI for work, in the car with some coworkers, and am probably expected to interact with them rather than holing myself up in my iPhone’s ear buds. So, …
Jun 05 2011
The war on drugs has failed, empirically.
The multi-billion-dollar industry that is the War On Drugs, which has imprisoned countless people for simple possession and spurred development of for-profit prisons across America, “has failed”, according to a report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy. The major players in the war are, of course, circling their wagons: The office of White House …
Jun 02 2011
White holes! (There’s a joke in there somewhere)
I’m too pumped about this possible find to bother hashing out the obvious body-part-related jokes available to me at the moment. White holes, AKA “little bangs”, AKA “time-reversed black holes”, AKA “a bunch of shit just suddenly barfed out into our spacetime at a random place and time with absolutely no warning”, may have been …
May 27 2011
We are free to “presuppose” that there is a reality here, because there is.
Sorry for the sporadic posting schedule, once again. Been running myself ragged over work. Need to tone that down a bit. There’s a piece over at Cosmic Variance by Sean M Carroll, the brilliantly titled Physics and the Immortality of the Soul, that dovetails perfectly with the “denouement” to an otherwise ongoing “conversation” (and I …
May 25 2011
The Politics of the Null Hypothesis
If you’ve been in the blogosphere as long as I have, you’ll know that certain arguments about science stem not from the science itself, but from a desire to affect political change despite the science based on one’s own personal biases. In the case of IQ and race, much of the “controversy” appears to come …
May 18 2011
How to solve AronRa’s phylogeny challenge
The solution to the challenge as presented in AronRa’s video is, of course, multifold. – One, we create an open-source phylogeny display/explorer program. Something like this may already exist. – Two, we create a wiki run either by paleobiologists or via a democratic system wherein every registered user gets to vote on every change, and …
May 17 2011
Pink is for girls, blue is for boys
Remember the ridiculous levels of outrage sparked by this image of J Crew’s president painting her son’s toenails pink? The outrage is being tempered somewhat by the passage of time, but it’s still got some steam left. From The Guardian: Are pink toys turning girls into passive princesses? So why the proliferation of pink in …
May 04 2011
How many gays must God make?
Minnesotans are cool. I have a mountain of evidence for this, for the record. Trolls aren’t so much. Too bad, I thought we had real dialog going on at one point. It’d be nice if there were more people actually willing to intellectually defend their earnestly held beliefs around these parts.
Apr 23 2011
How strawman arguments and shitty authors undermine #atheism
I haven’t read anything by Anthony DeStefano aside from his anti-atheist screeds on various news journals like USA Today, but I have no doubt merely by looking through the title list that he is a man of deep conviction in that which he cannot see. He’s written a book for children called Little Star, all …
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