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Religion as a predator

Analogies are often tenuous, stretched to the point of breaking. But they can also be useful in understanding phenomena and the world around us. Indeed, a stretched analogy is like silly putty. If you stretch it slowly, it will hold together and make sense. If you stretch it quickly, it

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On Refusing Epistemic Interaction: Dealing with People Who Won't Accept Facts

I recently produced a piece or two on the ontology of abstracts and the epistemic barrier. But let's now get psychological. Go read them for the foundation. One thing that came up in conversation between two commenters is the idea of interacting with people who do not want

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20 Cognitive Biases - an Infographic

Just thought I'd throw this out there!

"So you love paedophiles, then!" - a conspiracy theorist and fallacies

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"So you love paedophiles, then!" - a conspiracy theorist and fallacies

You need to know a few things before reading this: 1) The BBC got into trouble last year for having a serial paedophile (celebrity DJ and charity man Jimmy Savile) about whom I wrote this post about cognitive dissonance. 2) I went to a Skeptics in the Pub talk last night given by Rob Brotherto

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A Tippling Philosopher Interviews Dr Caleb Lack

So Dr Caleb Lack, a fellow SINner, and I had a chat a few weeks back. It is due to go out as a Skepticule Extra podcast, but since there have been a few delays, I am putting it out here first. It was a really enjoyable chat / interview, covering cognitive biases, atheism and god. We had a great time