I have a friend who often takes heroin. She's responsible. She'll often go out and do it in the woods, where she owns a little farmstead. She'll shoot up and really enjoy herself. It makes her feel good; empowered. Gets those endorphins flowing.
This is a topic which I have covered in other ways before, both in the piece "Have I killed someone?" and "A Great Myth about Atheism: Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot = Atheism = Atrocity – REDUX". This idea that atheism causes people to do X or Y has reared its ugly head. Why am I mentioning this now? Anton
Here is something well worth knowing. What many people do with America is take averages, say of income, earnings etc. However, this skews data. Because the US has the highest inequality, and the
I know this has done the rounds. I often refer back to similar experiments which have show that TMS can alter moral judgements, as this BBC article shows: Scientists have shown they can change people's moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses.
New Atheists is a term bandied around a lot at the perhaps confrontational atheists in the form of Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens and Dennett (although he's not so confrontational as the others!
'Trick Slattery is a great resource for infographics and good introductory book on free will and determinism. Check out his website at: Breaking The Free Will Illusion Loads of good stuff there.
Please check out the guest showing on the Skepticule Podcast, to which I usually contribute a 5-10 minute segment called Pearced Off! This episode was entirely about free will and feature fellow guest
The Guardian reports this insanity: Parents fatally whipped teen who wanted to quit church, New York court hears A mother and father whipped their 19-year-old son to death with an electrical cord during
I was asked by a fellow blogger to write something on the burden of proof. We often hear the maxim "the burden of proof falls upon the person making the claim" or something like that. Why is this the case? Does it stand?
This is a really important topic and piece which I think needs to be understood by many, not least the politicians working on the world stage. In fact, politicians seem these days to lack in philosophical rigour and understanding. Let me show you one such example here. The topic of Saudi Arabia, its
Caleb Lack (fellow SINner at Great Plains Skeptic), on facebook, succinctly stated: So, I watched the whole Dem debate, just like I watched the whole Repub one. My takeaway: Dem candidates want positive
Someone posted this on a facebook thread I was on. I thought it was a useful pictorial representation of the connection between control measures and gun-related deaths. I have seen this connection argued