The Availability Heuristic is a well-known cognitive bias that primes people to more readily believe something when they can easily come up with examples. Of the cognitive biases that I’ve encountered among rationalists in the skeptical and atheist communities, this bias is the one I’m most capable of coming up with examples. I am therefore …
Tag Archive: religion
May 15 2013
God’s America: weep for it. WEEP I SAY.
I’m pretty inured by now to blatant religious proselytization, bad acting, campy premises, and contrived patriotism, what with Mock the Movie and all, but this video almost made me gag, it was simply so syrupy. Yes. Because a DOUBLE X porno watched with friends, or being intoxicated in public, is the END OF AMERICA. There …
May 07 2013
Geeks Without God: Crappy Religious Board Game Edition!
Two weekends ago, I went to OmegaCon in Siren, Wisconsin. And by “went”, I mean “was kidnapped and made to go”. There, I played some board games with a whole lot of local board game nerds who frequent the local convention nerdery circuit. Many of these games were fun. The one that Molly and Nick …
Apr 25 2013
WaPo: Homegrown radicals opposed “US actions in the Muslim world”. See what they did there?
I have hardly had any time lately to blog (or much of anything leisure-related, honestly), but I’ve been trying to keep an eye on how the media’s been reporting on the Boston Marathon bombing. With Glenn Beck and the rest of the right-wing desperate to make this bombing about Islam, to fuel the rampant anti-Muslim …
Apr 21 2013
Thou Shalt Pirate Pornography
A few people are pointing this out as an example of some of the religious hypocrisy endemic in organized Catholicism. While they’re making a good case about it — this is in fact hypocritical, if you consider piracy stealing — I’d rather point out that this makes these people every bit as human as anyone …
Apr 04 2013
Paul Cameron: “Gays more likely to have sex with kids and animals, according to survey produced by My Rectum”
Okay, that’s not an exact quote, but damned if it’s not close enough to be serviceable. Some survey this anti-gay group produced, has apparently determined that a quarter of gays have had sex with kids or animals. I’d love to see the methodology used. Actually, hell — I’d love to see evidence that the “survey” …
Mar 18 2013
Saw nothing at all like this on my flight to Minneapolis
They didn’t seat me in row 666, there were no pamphlets on salvation, and the seats — cramped though they were — were a hell of a lot more comfortable than those pews look. And frankly, the pilot’s rapping wasn’t nearly good enough to cause the spontaneous generation of breakdancing angels. Via Everything Is Terrible, …
Mar 06 2013
Sophia Investigates The Good News Club
Still not a lot of time to spread around. However, I did have enough time during work today to listen at least to this documentary. And damn but it’s scary. Indoctrinating youth before they have a chance to start questioning this nonsense is obviously the best way to ensure you create life-long believers. If you …
Mar 04 2013
Pat Robertson: watch out for demons attached to secondhand goods!
Sorry again that I’ve been so silent — gigantic things are afoot in my life at the moment and it’s all I can do to keep myself from being plowed under. I’ll tell you all about ‘em as soon as I can. Pat Robertson has some helpful advice for those of you who have to …
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