Margaret Doughty is a British atheist who has lived in the United States for over 30 years, but unless she joins a church, immigration officials told her, her application for citizenship will be denied. The reason? Doughty is a conscientious objector, which means she is morally oppose to all war, and the oath of citizenship … Continued
Daniel Bier, the editor of this blog, brought to my attention a news story by Reuters regarding a report published on the active ingredient in Roundup® called glyphosate. The conclusions and the mode of publication immediately raised some skeptical red-flags. So I started reading the study, and all I can do is shake my head at how poor … Continued
When “social activists” spread fear-mongering bullshit about some product or technology (e.g., cell phones, artificial sweeteners, corn syrup, GM crops, or whatever), companies in related industries will inevitably defend their products from those attacks. This isn’t sinister or unexpected. You should be equally skeptical of their statements as those of their detractors, but you shouldn’t … Continued
The Founding Fathers are always everyone’s top choice when looking to bolster their argument, and despite being a generally skeptical lot (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Paine, and Franklin were deists), they are frequently and inaccurately invoked by the religious to support the claim that “America was founded as a Christian nation.” But despite so many irreligious … Continued
The income tax might be terrible, but it is (in fact) the law that is terrible.
The liberal is “as far from the crude rationalism of the socialist…as from the mysticism” of the conservative.
The terrible cost of alarmism is measured in human lives never lived.
How biased is Snopes?
