First it was the rabid muslims. Now it's the rabid Catholics.
"In this way the Catholic faith and the Catholic church are exposed to ridicule, which is justified neither by the freedom of opinion, of art, of the press nor of broadcasting," the archdiocese of Munich and Freising said in a...
Many people have said that one reason reporting on science is so dumb so much of the time is that the gatekeepers, let alone the reporters, at most publishers -- new and old -- have so little training in the subject that they don’t know how to assess what they’ve been handed. But seldom have I seen...
2022-04-27: Just for fun, and because today is a busy day, I have not gone out of my way to find any of the links that were not there on first attempt. I leave that as an exercise for the reader. Good to know that some, at least, do remain.
Tangled Bank 52 is up over at The Inoculated Mind,...
As my wife says, rational people are not threatened by fantasy books about supernatural powers. They know how to separate fact from fiction. They use logic, reason and critical thinking as their tools. It is the people who believe in magical powers and the supernatural that are threatened.
The...
My venerable old 2G iPod -- “ohmigod,” she gasped, “it’s so, so ... huge” -- has been giving me gyp in the headphone socket department, and just when I was becoming addicted to my podcasts. After one too many sessions of jiggling the plug just so, and knowing I won’t be able to handle delicate solde...
