Some men believe, or ardently pretend, they are women. And vice versa. These people are crazy. Not just a little crazy, but full-on bat guana gibbering remove-all-sharp-objects crazy. Compassionate people aren’t supposed […]
Only one from the mailbag today, because of the length and importance. From Jay, who points us to the New Atlantic’s major study on sexuality. Bookmark this one, folks. You’ll need it. […]
Today a paper which is the almost certain winner of the Third Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award (First winner; Second winner). Discovered by reader Nate Winchester, we have the peer-reviewed “Naturalizing Gender […]
Kennedy to Faithful: Drop Dead The appalling Anthony Kennedy, supreme justice, invoked Hitler to insist that Christians and Muslims who want to stay faithful should resign from government. Yes. Speaking in the […]
Galloping to our doom Surveys of public attitudes in democracies are interesting. When pollsters aren’t lying (more on this another day), polls are crude snapshots of the adult “general public’s” attitude to […]
Chris Harris created some pretty graphics showing Biblical cross references and other such things. Below is the main result: The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters […]
If we had records of massacres as we have meteorological records, don’t you think we might discover their internal laws, after several centuries of observation? — Joseph de Maistre. There hasn’t been […]
Here are the official number of ways you can go nuts, according to the peer-reviewed Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM-I started in 1952 with just 601 ways that […]
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