When the scientific method is used badly, when preconceptions are allowed to dictate analyses and conclusions, then you get bad science, and false knowledge. Untruths. In this vein, the work of Dr Caleb Lack and Dr Charles Abramson is well worth looking in to.
This one concise meme says so much. Come on America, sort it out.
I cam across 'Trick Slattery some years ago on facebook and whatnot due to his similarity of philosophy concerning free will and determinism. Indeed, he was kind enough to buy my book when it first came out. Back then, he was writing his own book, or ruminating on it. Well, he has written it and has
Representation! http://youtu.be/cjuGCJJUGsg
Here is Part IV of James A. Lindsay's series on infinity. The first three can be found here, here and here. I edited his fantastic book, Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly, which is available form the sidebar over there. As previously noted, I'm writing a series of blog posts that
This story is doing the news rounds. Another shocking example of how religion fucks everything up. Modern atheism prefer to argue vociferously about what happened in lift at skeptical conferences: A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death and killed by her family outside a high court in the Pakista
John Bartam alerted me to his fascinating-looking website and blog which compiles a lot of archaeological evidence in the strain of biblical Higher Criticism. Origins of Christianity is well worth a perusal as
This subject is fundamental to much of philosophy. It underpins disciplines like moral philosophy, and so it provides the ontology of the building bricks of our reality. This video explains abstracts and why
Here at the Skeptic Ink Network, A Tippling Philosopher is doing quite well as a blog, thanks to main to some of you dedicated readers. I just thought I would throw out a
These schools shouldn't even be allowed to exist, let alone be policed by their own. As the National Secular Society reports: The National Secular Society has expressed concern that inspectors with extremist views are working for the body responsible for inspecting Muslims and Christian independent
A reminder to all local skeptics and philosophiles: I am pretty excited that my biggest talk to date will take place later this month on Thursday 29th May in the Spiegeltent for Philosophy Hour at the Brighton Fringe Festival, one of the biggest fringe/arts festival in the world.
"I'm not a racist, I've got coloured neighbors and they're fantastic neighbors" - An interviewed UKIP voter on the BBC. Local elections have just taken place in the UK for a proportion of local councils where the electorate can decide which councillors will represent their interests in local ward