The latest from Cagle Cartoons. Exxon Knew by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, UT California: The Way of Water by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com The post The Comics Section: Trap Doors and Avatars appeared first on TheHumanist.com. The latest from Cagle Cartoons. Exxon Knew by Pat Bagley, The Salt …
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The COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the first half of 2020 bringing along with it much ignorance and uncertainty. This was a fertile time for the spread of lies and misinformation about the disease. In Brazil, this process was detailed in a study by Marilia Gehrke and Marcia Benetti, from the Federal University of Rio Grande …
January 22nd marks what would have been the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision being in effect. For nearly half a century, women and people who can become pregnant relied on the protections afforded by the landmark 1973 ruling, which asserted that the Constitution protects a person’s decision to terminate a …
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This is the second in a series of articles this month about alcohol and addiction that are part of the American Humanist Association’s Dry January Challenge. I used to think I had no connection to substance abuse or addiction. I was wrong. I was born a daughter of two Nigerian immigrants in a small borough …
A friend to humanity and a foe to tyrants, Thomas Paine championed the rights of the “common” people and believed emphatically in the dignity and rights of all humans, which drove him to challenge the divine rights of kings, forever changing the course of history. The Thomas Paine Memorial Association (TPMA) is proud to announce …
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In August, there was a special lecture by Kim Tae Won, executive director of Google Korea, who is in the spotlight as a ‘mentor for the young”. The theme was “How to live as a Creative Talent in the 4th Industrial Era”. The lecture hall was packed with young people who wanted to be prepared …
Saju: the Korean obsession with fortune-telling Joshua Jung The Skeptic Read More »
For my final article about the Better Way antivaxxer convention in Bath, I want to discuss the relationship between antivaxxerism and antisemitic conspiracism. For years now I’ve written about the reverse Godwin effect and the overrepresentation of Jews in conspiracy narratives. In the eight months since I started this series, antisemitic conspiracism has had yet …
This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 22, Issue 1, from 2011. I’m grateful to Jon Wainwright for his interesting report of my recent APRU lecture. We may not see eye to eye on everything but his description of what I said is accurate and he makes many cogent points, some of which I …
With 2022 over and 2023 in its early days, many of us are looking forward nervously, wondering what this new year may bring. So, curious creature that I am, I attended a psychic seminar, which brought together the disciplines of astrology and tarot reading, to see what events we can expect to see in the …
This is the first in a series of articles this month about alcohol and addiction that are part of the American Humanist Association’s Dry January Challenge. I spent more than ten years of my life sitting across from my affirming and highly skilled psychologist, Dr. Susan Clemons. Each session we sifted through the relational and environmental …
State-Mandated Addiction Recovery and Race Peter Bjork TheHumanist.com Read More »
