On Changing Ones Mind |
Note on Background for Anyone Not From Lancaster, PA.:
Much of this post deals with events surrounding a triple murder that occurred about a month ago and its aftermath. Here are a couple of links for...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:10:00 GMT |
Book Review: The Secret Life of Houdini by: William Kalush and Larry Sloman |
Think "Famous". Who comes to mind when you hear (or read in this case) that word? Elvis? Madonna? "Brad-gelina"? When I think "Famous" I instantly think "Harry Houdini", a man who died 20 + years befo...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:21:00 GMT |
Book Review: The Gospel of Food by Barry Glassner |
Barry Glassner is my favorite skeptic. For those of you not familiar with the skeptical movement (which I assume is ANYONE reading this), I can tell you that a lot of time is spent obvious stuff like ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:32:00 GMT |
Book Review: Finding Darwin's God by Kenneth R. Miller |
There is a popular saying in scientific circles that, "When a scientist enters a church, he must check his brain at the door." This is not surprising as the vast majority of higher educated scientists...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:03:00 GMT |
How to Spot Pseudoscience (with apologies to Brian Dunning) |
Note: The following is by Brian Dunning of skeptoid.com. I post it here as the most concise example of developing a working "bullshit" detector that I've come across. In fact, his site and series of p...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:58:00 GMT |
Why Atheist? |
I really don't want to turn this into one of the literally millions of atheism websites out there. But a family member, after seeing the term on the "religion" portion of my profile, asked why I use t...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:17:00 GMT |
