Thi is a great article from Salon.com. I have started it off here, but it is well worth reading the lot. I think it is fascinating, the crossover between philosophy and politics
Our ebook, soon to be paperback, with 13 chapters contributed by authors here at SIN, is out on arious e-formats. It has received good reviews, if you discount the trolls, such as JoeG who used to hang out here on occasion, losing a $10,000 bet to Andy.
Oh bloody dear. The BBC: Astrology-loving MP seeks health answers in the stars A Conservative MP has spoken of his belief in astrology and his desire to incorporate it into medicine. David Tredinnick
'Rationality is useless if it is not sound. This is what Martin Luther meant when he called reason a "whore". Pick the wrong premises, and rationality is utterly screwed. Therefore, merely that someone is "rational" means absolutely nothing about whether that person is well-connected to reality.'
Check out our podcast with Tom Williamson where we talk about all sorts, and a lot about our new book, 13 Reasons To Doubt. Check out both the book and the podcast, featuring
OK, so the controversial ruling sucks big time, but just before it was made, John Oliver did his thing: http://youtu.be/zSQCH1qyIDo Spot on, of course. And while we're at
So human evolution in its African context has been hotly researched, but the research is necessarily slow. Fossil digs take a ling time and are few and far between. New finds from 2000 onwards in Georgia are throwing a lot of theories up in the air. What were once thought to be different species of
This is yet another case of a defector from RT, the Russian news media organisation. Liz Wahl recently quit over the Crimea conflict and demands on her journalistic integrity in the context of what management and Putin were demanding of the network and its conclusions:
The Heartland Institute, a prominent, Chicago-based organization opposing climate science, has teamed up with the creationist Discovery Institute to launch a smear campaign against a group promoting the nationwide adoption of updated science education guidelines.
I love this quote from Valerie Tarico in her chapter "God's Emotions" in John Loftus' book The End of Christianity. To say that the descriptions of God in the Bible are metaphors does not make the situation any better. A metaphor about something as deep as the human relationship to ultimate reality
YES!!! GIVE IS OUT, GOVE IS OUT, WHOOP DE DOO, GOVE IS OUT. GOVE HAS GONE, GOVE HAS GONE, YAY YAY YAY, GOVE HAS GONE!
Some of the writers here at SIN have contributed to an anthology called 13 Reasons to Doubt, with chapters ranging over many aspects of skepticism. Here s the description: Extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence.