by Carl Howard | Mar 19, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Sex
Because the internet NEEDS another opinion on trigger warnings/content notes! Act 1 A long time ago in a parallel universe, writing was AuthenticTM. A host of manly men created great literature and disseminated them to the public. Everything was great and everyone got...
by Carl Howard | Feb 25, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Resources, Food and Environment, Science and Skepticism
You know what’s really fucking annoying? When someone has a list of cognitive biases of fallacies that they love to stick on situations. “You’ve just committed an egreggious case of petitio principii, also known as begging the question for you plebs!” and the like....
by Carl Howard | Jul 28, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Medicine, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Science and Skepticism, Spirituality
Near death experiences happen to many people when they’re near clinical death and survive. They’re often profoundly meaningful or life-changing to those who have them. They’re also frequently used to argue that there is an afterlife, a spiritual realm or “something...
by Carl Howard | May 28, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Feminism and LGBT, History, Medicine, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Philosophy
You’ve probably seen stuff about the Isla Vista shooting everywhere (I’ll have links to good resources at the bottom of the post). Still, I thought it was worth addressing whether or not Elliot Rodger had a mental illness or not. Here’s a Facebook post by Maddox that...
by Carl Howard | May 24, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness
When I was in Cambodia, I saw lots of beggars. For obvious reasons, I didn’t want to give money to people begging. However, simply saying no and leaving it at that didn’t seem right either. The idea I came up with was to record the number of encounters with beggars....
by Carl Howard | Apr 22, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Society
I used to watch Law and Order. Embarrassing, right? For those who don’t know, it’s a long-running half-cop half-courtroom show focussing on the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Naturally, the characters’ bias is going to be against defendants. One scene...
