I went on a twitter rampage last night. It was just too much: a day of incessant bland dumb Mormon bleating at me, then the skeptics once again expressed their contempt for atheism (more about that later), followed by a parade of stereotypes about us awful atheists, who are unlike our skeptical brethren in hating …
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Jan 30 2013
A reply to Steven Novella
Steven Novella has written a post taking exception to some things I’ve said, specifically on the issue of the overlap of science, skepticism, and religion. I have to say, though, that what his post actually does is confirm my claim: that a lot of skeptics strain to delimit the scope of skepticism in ways that …
Jan 16 2013
The delicate ego of Mr Michael Shermer
As you’ve probably already heard since Ophelia Benson has posted a few things about it, Michael Shermer has had another meltdown. To keep it short, Shermer said a stupid sexist thing on camera — about the skewed sex ratio among atheist/skeptical activists, he said “It’s who wants to stand up and talk about it, go …
Nov 15 2012
Skepticon success
Some bozo named @RichSandersen on Twitter asserted that Skepticon att. dropped 1200 to 700. With @PZMyers and @RebeccaWatson there, no wonder people stayed away. (It’s worth noting that in the twitter thread, DJ Grothe graciously wrote that he’d heard figures of 1600 attendees, and that it was a “great event.”) Hmm. I was at both …
Sep 11 2012
Around FtB
I scan the main page of Freethoughtblogs every day, and here are a few of the stories that caught my eye this time around. Black Skeptics has posted a list of books by and about African American atheists. I’ve read one, Moral Combat. I’m getting on Amazon to order a few more — I’ve heard …
Jul 14 2012
An excellent plan
We’re going to distract all attention from our horrible #FTBullies status by a well-tested expedient: We’re going to blame Rebecca Watson for everything. At last, all Deep Rifts are healed! I must highlight a comment from kosk11348 that encapsulates the whole recent mess. The best analogy I’ve heard yet for understanding this situation is a …
Jun 25 2012
Misogynists can think women are tasty, while not recognizing that they are human beings
I see where Thunderf00t gets his name: he puts his foot in it hard. And that’s unfortunate, because before building up his credibility in in his new digs here at freethoughtblogs, he’s launched into an embarrassingly clueless defense of his privilege to chew on women’s legs. I’m tempted to tear every sentence apart, but the …
Jun 22 2012
Gosh, the grapes sure are sour over here
Benjamin Radford, a regular at The Amazing Meeting, has decided he doesn’t like blogs, and never has, no sir. This is a fact which he has chosen to announce in a blog by citing his first blog entry. As I write my first entry for the sparkly new “Free Thinking” blog, I’m skeptical of its …
Jun 17 2012
A conversation about TAM
A subset of Freethoughtbloggers and the Queen Skepchick got together on Google+ to discuss the recent contretemps. The people who participated were me, Al Stefanelli, Daniel Fincke, Greg Laden, Ian Cromwell, Jason Thibeault, Ophelia Benson, Rebecca Watson, and Stephanie Zvan. Here’s how I introduced it: The latest controversy to embroil freethoughtblogs is over the James …
Jun 07 2012
Why I won’t be going to TAM this year
Regretfully, I won’t be going to The Amazing Meeting next month. It’s a small thing; it’s a great meeting, I do think DJ Grothe has made a good effort to improve it over the years, but recent events have simply cooled my enthusiasm. It was a terribly clumsy mistake to accuse Rebecca Watson of undermining …
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