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• Tom McCabe’s List of Lies on Twitter

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 522
  My friend and colleague Tom McCabe , who I consider one of the smartest people I know, has been Twittering some interesting stuff lately, in the last few hours especially. He has been posting a list of lies. Here is that list below, ending with #19: A list of lies. #1: For most Americans, an Ivy League college ...
  2 days ago

• In Search of the Mother Troll

  
  Dread Tomato Addiction — Authority: 116
  I was reading an article at Smithsonian.com:Evolution in the Deepest River in the Worldwhich I found quite interesting. What really caught my attention though was the comments. Third comment to appear was this:evolution is a biggest HOAX in world history ... and I think might be fairly called a Creationist.I wont ...
  3 days ago

• Getting attention — the comedy approach

  
  Enlightened tradition — Authority: 441
  One of the joys of Twitter is that people one follows often point to things that one would otherwise have missed. It was by that route that I became aware of the work of Chris Atherton . She is a specialist in visual perception, cognition and presentation skills. I first encountered her work when someone pointed me ...
  4 days ago

• Fine Tuning a bit Off Key

  
  Cogita Tute - Think For Yourself — Authority: 125
  
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• Exposure Therapy: When Probabilities Fail, by Bryan Caplan

  
  EconLog — Authority: 688
  In chapter 4 of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , I show that - objectively speaking - kids today are safer than ever .  And Im far from the first social scientist to point out the publics systematically biased beliefs about risk - try Aaron Wildavsky , Kip Viscusi , Cass Sunstein , or Levitt & Dubner .  ...
  5 days ago

• Whats this? Faith AND Reason?!?

  
  Dread Tomato Addiction — Authority: 116
  Todd Wood, a Young Earth Creationist, has this to say:Evolution is not a theory in crisis. It is not teetering on the verge of collapse. It has not failed as a scientific explanation. There is evidence for evolution, gobs and gobs of it. It is not just speculation or a faith choice or an assumption or a religion. ...
  5 days ago

• Aspect 5(b): A Mission Driven by Biblical Theology (Christ, Spirit, Man)

  
  Between The Times — Authority: 498
  (By: Danny Akin & Bruce Ashford) We believe theological and missiological method must be tethered to the doctrine of Christ . It is said that a Hindu once asked Dr. E. Stanley Jones, ‘What has Christianity to offer that our religion has not?’ He replied, ‘Jesus Christ.’” Indeed, Jesus Christ is ...
  5 days ago

• Loose ends in Brno

  
  Just Another Deisidaimon — Authority: 99
  Last week I was at a small, two-day conference on the cognitive science of religion in Brno. There were only twenty-something people there, mostly from the Czech Republic, Slovakia or Poland, The only exception were the two key speakers, Armin Geertz and Jesper Sorensen, who were from Aarhus in Denmark. Most of the ...
  6 days ago

• House Bill Enslaving the US, Passes

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  I actually like the headline James Joyner puts up at a bit better: House Trades Freedom for Health Coverage, Senate’s Move The House passed a trillion dollar bill that will force Americans to buy health insurance, force even small businesses to provide health coverage, and require insurance companies to cover ...
  1 week ago

• Judging quality

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 542
  according to sa’s new chief justice, sandile ngcobo, judicial temperament is a key attribute for aspiring judges.addressing the judicial service commission (jsc) in september, ngcobo added scholarship, experience, dignity, rationality, capacity for articulation, diligence, intellectual integrity, energy and courage ...
  1 week ago

• Bunch of whiny children, we are

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 436
  When Americans in significant numbers begin to deny objective reality, and significant numbers of Americans who do not, themselves, deny reality nonetheless let the others get away with it, we are in a world of hurt. Denial has real costs, including real lives : In certain parts of the US, vaccination rates have ...
  1 week ago

• Emotional != Irrational

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 125
  So I’m in the middle of reading Bruce Hood’s Supersense , and so far it’s looking like a really worthwhile read. I’m going to wait till I’ve followed his reasoning through to the end before deciding exactly what I think of it, but it’s prompted me to think (and subsequently rant) about something that’s ...
  1 week ago

• Emotional != Irrational

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 125
  So I’m in the middle of reading Bruce Hood’s Supersense , and so far it’s looking like a really worthwhile read. I’m going to wait till I’ve followed his reasoning through to the end before deciding exactly what I think of it, but it’s prompted me to think (and subsequently rant) about something that’s ...
  1 week ago

• Two Links, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 688
  Both feature Tyler Cowen. Here (or perhaps you should start here ), he talks about stories. It is classic Tyler, playing cat and mouse games with your head. Basically, he is saying that stories have an advantage in that they serve as a filter for viewing the world, making them very economical in terms of ...
  1 week ago

• The Weakness of Humans

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 129
  Courtesy of U Chicago, some statistics. [Link] They deal with changes in the beliefs, at least as indicated by a survey, of Americans between 1964 (or slightly later) and now. Belief in deity but not a personal deity: 0.05 -> 0.10; Belief in deity: 0.99 -> 0.92; Never attend services: 0.09 -> 0.22; ...
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• Because you can’t bring red-hot pokers into detention

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 125
  I’m pretty confident that I won’t be praying before I die. Never mind all that “no atheists in foxholes” bollocks. I’m confident in my non-belief. I’m not just petulantly refusing to believe in a god I secretly know is really there, and I’m not going to run crying back to him when I’m scared and ...
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• Molesting Priests and Rational Religion

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 130
  Thousands of pages regarding shady priest reassignments within the Catholic Church are about to be released.  Earlier this week, the Supreme Court denied the appeal of the Connecticut Supreme Court decision ordering the release of more than 12,000 pages from 23 lawsuits against six priests.  These documents were ...
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• Dear New Yorker: I Want My Catch Phrase Back, by Bryan Caplan

  
  EconLog — Authority: 688
  Im a firm believer that (a) all publicity is good publicity, (b) the more attention my memes get, the better - even if if I get no credit.  And in the past, The New Yorker has done me nothing but good; its review of The Myth of the Rational Voter was more than fair.  Yet despite my lackadaisical standards and ...
  1 week ago

• What are the goals of Skepticism 2.0?

  
  The Lippard Blog — Authority: 512
  Yesterday I listened to D.J. Grothes interview with Ben Radford on the Point of Inquiry podcast about the latest issue of the Skeptical Inquirer (November/December 2009) about "Skepticism 2.0," the bottom-up grassroots expansion of the skeptical movement through Internet communications tools like blogs, ...
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• Commonsense Consequentialism: A Bleg for Comments

  
  PEA Soup — Authority: 111
  Currently, I’m working on a book entitled Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality . (Click on the link to be taken to a web site where you can download individual chapters.) The book is on morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, I defend a version of ...
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