Richard Dawkins Turns Gideon?
Today a story which falls under Bets You Would Have Lost. Angry atheist (sounds like a board game) Richard Dawkins said he would have "contributed financially to the scheme" of…
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What Organic Boors, Swedish Pronouns, And The Exorcist Have In Common
Not much, except to demonstrate that the natural state of modernity is something closely resembling mass lunacy. To explain. Swedish Pronouns Via Sam Schulman â€(Twitter: @Sam_Schulman) we infer that 1984…
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How To Present Anything As Significant. Update: Nature Weighs In
Update The paper on which this post was based has hit the presses which was used as an occasion for Nature to opine that, just maybe, that some of the…
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Holocaust Survivor Compares Climate Skeptics To Hitler Deniers
Micha Tomkiewicz is a physicist who tells us he was a child in the Warsaw Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen during World War II when the Nazis (and Soviets) were gleefully murdering…
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Dutch Doctors’ Strange New House Calls
Dr Overlijden of Levenseindekliniek A new contest is in order, if it doesn't already exist. Each year we should recognize and award the person or group who invents the best…
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The Probability Of Nonsense In Science: Complexity & Verification
This is a work in progress, and today is a busy day. This is just for fun and for you to play with. The more complex the field of study,…
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Sleeping Beauty Probability Problem
Update This has been moved up from its original 29 Feb 2012 date on 23 March 2012 to allow additional comments. Update This has been moved up from its original…
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The Implications Of Moral Insignificance
In her piece "In Praise of Insignificance" in Scientific American, Jennifer Ouellette says, If one embraces an atheist worldview, it necessarily requires embracing, even celebrating, one's insignificance. It's a tall…