Blog Archives for March, 2009
A Bell Tolls for Walter Sartory
Hollywood Reality Check with Jim Underdown
March 31, 2009
How do secular humanists deal with death – especially senseless death?
11 Comments
Seth McFarlane’s “Family Guy” Embraces Secular Humanism
Reasonable Doubt with Derek C. Araujo
March 30, 2009
Has Carl Sagan been reincarnated in the form of an alcoholic talking dog?
6 Comments
The Humanist Life is the Aesthetic Life
It’s Only Natural with John Shook
March 30, 2009
Aesthetic appreciation is important for life. Does the humanist life essentially involve artistic expression?
4 Comments
Demonizing in Connecticut
Investigative Briefs with Joe Nickell
March 27, 2009
Demonic movie "Based on true events" is a crock
8 Comments
The Premature Burial of the Religious Right
No Faith Value with Ronald A. Lindsay
March 26, 2009
Ever the optimist, Ron Lindsay perceives a vigorous heartbeat in the left-for-dead religious right.
7 Comments
The ABCs of UFOtos
Hollywood Reality Check with Jim Underdown
March 26, 2009
A Quick Do It Yourself Guide To Shooting Your Own Spaceship
4 Comments
Benedict XVI Condoms Explode Over Paris
Reasonable Doubt with Derek C. Araujo
March 26, 2009
In Paris, condoms bearing the Pope's smiling visage are all the rage.
2 Comments
Psychics Blind in Investment Scandal
Investigative Briefs with Joe Nickell
March 25, 2009
Buffalo-area "psychics" fail to foresee doom
3 Comments
Latest on Dawkins and Oklahoma
No Faith Value with Ronald A. Lindsay
March 20, 2009
An update on free speech -- or the lack thereof -- in Oklahoma.
5 Comments
Could Atheism Prove that God does not Exist?
It’s Only Natural with John Shook
March 20, 2009
Maybe atheism should not take on a burden of proof that rightly belongs to the religious believer.
16 Comments
Is Evangelical Christianity Done For?
Out of My Skeptical Mind with D.J. Grothe
March 20, 2009
What's next for secular humanists after they win the culture war?
20 Comments
New “Knowing” Film Based on Numerology and Bible Code Pseudoscience
A Skeptic Reads the Newspaper with Ben Radford
March 19, 2009
The new Nicolas Cage film "Knowing" has roots in numerology and the discredited Bible Code.
7 Comments
US Government’s UFOs
Investigative Briefs with Joe Nickell
March 18, 2009
UFOs become IFOs--from the U.S. government.
1 Comment
Does Religion Do Harm? New Evidence
Guest Blog from Tom W. Flynn
March 18, 2009
A new study finds that dying cancer patients who are devout are more likely to cling to life at any cost.
7 Comments
2009 Templeton Award goes to physicist/philosopher for proving . . . um, what?
Reasonable Doubt with Derek C. Araujo
March 17, 2009
The Templeton Foundation awarded Bernard d'Espagnat $1.4 million for speculative musings about science and religion.
8 Comments
Is Kabul the Capital of Oklahoma?
No Faith Value with Ronald A. Lindsay
March 16, 2009
Some Oklahoma legislators believe only certain views may be considered by college students. Atheism isn't on the approved list.
4 Comments
Egypt and Pakistan Push UN Resolution on “Anti-Muslim” Speech
Reasonable Doubt with Derek C. Araujo
March 16, 2009
Egypt and Pakistan are moving in on a UN Human Rights Council resolution that would block criticism of Islam.
A Radical View on Population
Guest Blog from Tom W. Flynn
March 13, 2009
Steven Kotler has the most radical take on population I've read lately. But try to find anything wrong with it.
21 Comments
Afghan Court Upholds Student Journalist’s 20-Year Sentence for Blasphemy
Reasonable Doubt with Derek C. Araujo
March 12, 2009
The Afghan Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year sentence for the "crime" of blasphemy.
10 Comments
Levy Case a Psychic Failure
Investigative Briefs with Joe Nickell
March 10, 2009
"Psychics" useless in Chandra Levy case
3 Comments
Who’s “We,” White Man? Or, The Media’s Mythical Majority
A Skeptic Reads the Newspaper with Ben Radford
March 09, 2009
Lazy writers use phrases like "We are obsessed with celebrity" in news and media reports, making incorrect overgeneralizations
5 Comments
American Nonbelievers are now Third behind Catholics and Baptists
It’s Only Natural with John Shook
March 09, 2009
The just-released 2008 American Religious Identification Survey shows that nonbelievers make up 15% of the American population.
6 Comments
Pay Attention to the Cross in the Doughnut Hole
No Faith Value with Ronald A. Lindsay
March 04, 2009
A new Supreme Court case will provide a clue to the Obama administration's views on church-state issues.
4 Comments
The New Snake Oil
Investigative Briefs with Joe Nickell
March 04, 2009
Alternative Medicine: acupuncture or quackapuncture?
3 Comments
Strange Responses to a Skeptical Article
A Skeptic Reads the Newspaper with Ben Radford
March 03, 2009
Three readers commented on a recent skeptical article about the paranormal; none were very happy.
14 Comments
Obama ready to undo Bush medical conscience clause
It’s Only Natural with John Shook
March 02, 2009
Obama will reverse a Bush regulation letting health care workers avoid duties that they find religiously objectionable.
6 Comments
