by Carl Howard | Apr 14, 2015 | Atheism and Religion, Evolution and Biology, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Philosophy
This is an oldie (from 2014) but a goodie. A legit science website (Science 2.0) publishes an blog post entitled Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke by Nury Vittachi. It’s a great example of what happens when you try to be so...
by Carl Howard | Apr 7, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Science and Skepticism
A few weeks ago, there was an item in international media that is a perfect example of what happens when you get a combination of bad science reporting, bad science and moral panics. The story was that apparently research has shown that men who take selfies show more...
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 | Mar 12, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, History, Race
here was a post shared by a Facebook [ex-]friend a few months ago. I found it super-racist, to the extent that I chose to block him rather than try to engage. I will however address it here because it contains a lot of important+useful details about the Australian...
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 | Jan 12, 2015 | Charity and Philanthropy, Feminism and LGBT, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment
2014 was not a great year for the world by any means. If you haven’t seen this great cartoon from The Nib summarising just some of the shitty things that happened, you should. So naturally, what did 2015 do so far? Promise to be a much much shittier year, if these...
