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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Popular culture Quackery Religion Television

Ask Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins some questions at the AAI Conference this weekend!

I promised last week in a post in which I described Bill Maher’s latest pro-quackery remarks (this time, supporting cancer quackery), today is the day that I’m going to ask you, my readers, for some help. As I complained a while back, Bill Maher, who is anything but a rationalist or a booster of science […]

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Humor Politics Religion

Are you ready for the…ultimate praying championship?

Sadly, this is not too far from how religious disputes seem to be settled. The only difference is that there’s less violence here than there is in real life: Hmmm. Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if religious conflicts could be resolved by an Ultimate Praying Challenger, rather than the usual way. As […]

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History Politics Religion

September 11, 2001: What we saw and as it happened

Once again we come to another September 11. It’s hard to believe that it’s been eight years since that horrible day. On this day, traditionally, I do two things. First, I post the following video. This video was shot by Bob and Bri, who in 2001 lived in a high rise a mere 500 yards […]

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Humor Pareidolia Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, especially when it’s Jesus on a toilet

Praying to the porcelain god was never a more appropriate term: Cue toilet and bathroom jokes…with Jesus!

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

Sedalia, Missouri, you should be ashamed of your schools, or: The dumbest anti-evolution victory I’ve ever seen…

It was just a high school marching band, like so many other high school bands in this country, a band that no one outside of the area of Sedalia, Missouri would be likely to have heard of, were it not for a breathtakingly stupid action by its school superintendent. You see, the band had an […]