by Carl Howard | Mar 15, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Race, Society
There has been a huge reaction to the Japan earthquake in terms of media coverage, personal condolences and anguish on social media etc etc. While that’s a good thing I’m very dismayed at how much less support was shown in the Haiti earthquake especially considering...
by Carl Howard | Mar 2, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Sex
My 2.5 year old post on consensual incest continues to be the most popular post I’ve ever done. It’s drawn in a huge number of comments, probably because it’s now #5 in Google for [consensual incest] and #1 for [consensual sibling incest]. For the same reasons many of...
by Carl Howard | Nov 24, 2010 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
I’ve noticed an interesting disonnect between proofs some fundamentalist believers use for their religion and their beliefs about science (especially evolution). For an example, let’s take Judaism, which has a proof that the Torah is divine. This is called the Kuzari...
by Carl Howard | Sep 12, 2010 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
Before I mention the chart, a quick little reader experiment: Commit to an estimate of how many people in the UK die each year from falling off ladders. Try to avoid calculations, just go with your gut. Check your answer Commit to an estimate of how many children...
by Carl Howard | Sep 3, 2010 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Society
Via Amanda Marcotte a few weeks ago I came across a viral video meant to show that Republican women are superhot and Democrat women are monsters. Here’s the link but it keeps being taken down so I’ve pasted an image version below (from here) just so you can get a feel...
by Carl Howard | Sep 1, 2010 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Resources, Food and Environment
’m still busily thesising so posting will continue at a homeopathic rate over the next 2-3 weeks. In the meantime, here is another exercise, this time taking about half an hour. The first part is to watch this talk (which is interesting enough regardless of my post)...
