January 24, 2023

With Richard Dawkins in the Galapagos Islands, Part Six: Day Three, Fernandina Kristine Harley Atheists for Liberty

Read More Atheists for Liberty            On Sunday morning, Mother’s Day, we visited Fernandina, one of the youngest of the islands. We walked on the smooth and roping Pahoehoe lava, which emerges from the volcano as a liquid or close to it, en route inland to see the sharper A’a lava, […]

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CLARITy Coalition Conference 2022: Keynote by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Panel Discussion on Understanding Islamist Strategies The AHA Foundation AHA Foundation

Read More AHA Foundation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptj1Pm0qm48 Over a weekend in October 2022, the very first CLARITy Coalition conference was held in Salzburg, Austria.

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Atheist Republic News Summary: Santas Assaulted by Hindu Nationalists at… P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic Santas Assaulted by Hindu Nationalists at Indian Carnival https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/santas-assaulted-hindu-nationalists-indian-carnival Location: India Hindu nationalists in India beat up a group of Santa Clauses on December 23 who were handing out Christian books and chocolate at a zoo in Ahmedabad, India. The group, known as the Bajrang Dal, accused the Santa Clauses of

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From the archive: The Truth about Rendlesham James Easton The Skeptic

This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 17, Issue 2-3, from 2006. Interest in the Rendlesham Forest ‘UFO’ case began some years ago, when the Internet was evolving from computer ‘bulletin boards’. These formative discussion forums were a source of otherwise unobtainable information and featured a serious-minded, worldwide community, interested in the eclectic subject

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Suzie Sheehy — The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World Skeptic Skeptic

Read More Skeptic Shermer and Sheehy discuss: what it’s like being a female physicist in a mostly male field • Does science progress through falsification, confirmation, consensus, or Bayesian reasoning? • atoms, light, Higgs Boson, time, gravity, dark energy, dark matter, string theory, radioactivity • Gold Foil Experiment • cloud chambers • particle accelerators •

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Cracking History: Chiropractic’s Secret Origin J. Michael Menke Skeptic

Read More Skeptic The origin of chiropractic medicine has long been under dispute, with most modern chiropractors denying that its purported founder, D.D. Palmer, copied osteopathy. Yet, the two schools of thought were nearly identical at their beginnings, and just a few hours apart by railway. Further, chiropractic was “discovered” the same year—1895—that the first

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