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Happy New Year, and A Year End Review of Blog Posts
Posted by Greg Laden on January 1, 2013 Happy new year. Did you know that this is the first year in many that all four digits of the year (in this case 2,0,1,3) are different from each other? Can you name the last year this was true? Can you name the next year in which this will be true? Had you been following…
Michael Cortese uses personal vendetta to deprive SSA of much needed funds
Posted by Greg Laden on December 24, 2012 As you know, as part of a fund raiser for the Secular Student Alliance, I wrote a novella called Sungodogo, which I’ve since made available on Amazon for the Kindle (and in other formats … I’ll have a print version in January some time). The book is about a handful of people who travel across…
Evolutionary Psychology: Careful, some practitioners may be carrying a kitchen knife!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 10, 2012 
Darwinian Psychology, or really, any “Psychology” that claims to be science, will operate under the assumption that the human brain, as an organ, has arrived at its modern form through the process of evolution, which includes a certain amount of design through Natural Selection. It does not take that much additional sophistication to realize that…
Critique of Rebecca Watson’s Talk: Haters gonna hate.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2012 
Whinging About Skepchick A critique of a talk by Rebecca Watson is very likely heavily influenced by the critiquer’s membership in one group or another as defined by The Great Sorting. This not because Rebecca is a polarizing person. It is because she has been outspoken on issues that tend to polarize people, like feminism.…
How Girls Evolved to Shop
Posted by Greg Laden on December 3, 2012 
Rebecca Watson gave the following talk at Skeptcon. It is funny, well done, and critiques a Pop-Evol-Psy concept or two, which I have also addressed (Why Do Men Hunt and Women Shop?, Understanding Sex Differences in Humans: What do we learn from nature?, Falsehoods: Human Universals, A Tutorial in Human Behavioral Biology, Driving The Patriarchy:…
Science Denialism: Some resources
Posted by Greg Laden on November 7, 2012 The term “War on Science” comes from multiple sources, one being Chris Mooney’s book “The Republican War on Science” (see below) and another, the made up “War on Christmas,” a term attributed to Bill O’Really. Throw in a little “Culture War” rhetoric and I think we have a good basis for the origin of the…
What does sexism and harassment feel like to you?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 5, 2012 
I’m a guy who “gets” nasty threats from haters. I receive anti-atheist threats and icky comments, I receive a LOT of nasty stuff from climate science denialists (and that often comes along with bogus threats of law suits), I receive nasty emails and tweets from the SlymePitters and those folks seem to spend more time…
Your Baby’s Best Shot and Rebecca Watson
Posted by Greg Laden on October 13, 2012 … the podcast, is now available for download: This week, we’re looking at the science – and pseudoscience – that affects the healthcare decisions parents make for their children, and women make for themselves. We’re joined by Allison Hagood and Stacy Herlihy, to talk about their book Your Baby’s Best Shot: Why Vaccines are Safe…
Are Vaccines Safe For Your Children?
Posted by Greg Laden on October 5, 2012 Ask Allison Hagood and Stacy Herlihy about Vaccine Safety They are the authors of Your Baby’s Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives, and they will be Desiree’s guests on Skeptically Speaking. This week, we’re looking at the science – and pseudoscience – that affects the healthcare decisions parents make for their children,…
Egyptian pro-Democracy Blogger Arrested
Posted by Greg Laden on September 17, 2012 Alber Saber is a pro-democracy blogger in Egypt who also runs a facebook page for atheists. His neighbors found out about this and, of course, mobbed his house. The police arrived on the scene, and of course, they arrested him. He was thrown in jail and, of course, he seems to have been attacked by…
Keep Rebecca Watson on SGU
Posted by Greg Laden on September 4, 2012 Some time ago, a group of Internet Yahoos who shall not be named (the usual misogynist freaks who spend all their time harassing women who won’t shut up) started a petition to get Rebecca Watson tossed off her podcast “The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe.” As I understand it, no one took that petition seriously,…
World Wide Mind (and Culture)
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2012 World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet is a new book by Michael Chorost. I’ve not thoroughly read it yet but I’ve looked through it and I’ve listened to an interview with Chorost. Here’s the book description from Amazon to give you an idea what it is about: What if…
Guys crossing the street, rabid dogs, and elevators
Posted by Greg Laden on July 31, 2012 I am aware, painfully aware, of three separate instances of men acting inappropriately towards a woman that occurred to people I know over the last couple of months. [Trigger warning: Sexual harassment and rape] In once case, a man drove up to a woman who was just getting out of her car, in a relatively…
SkepchickCON @ CONvergence
Posted by Greg Laden on July 5, 2012 Today is the first day of SkepchickCON at CONvergence. CONvergence is the largest fan run fantasy and science fiction convention in the US and or World and possibly Universe, depending. It is held in a suburb of Minneapolis. One gazillion people are in attendance. There are many activities and events, and a double-decker parallelogram of…
Does the Internet need an HR Department?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 13, 2012 When a young girl put a picture of herself, holding a book she had just gotten as a present, on the social networking site reddit, she was immediately subjected to intense verbal sexual assault by reddit readers who aptly demonstrated how awful it can be when boys and young men are left to say and…
Linking Elevators, Rebecca Watson, Richard Dawkins and of course, Hitler and the Nazis!!!11!!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 19, 2011 As you know, I’ve shifted some of the topics I have discussed on this blog over to The X Blog. However, some topics can very reasonably go on both. One of these is how we communicate, and argue, and sometimes make progress in this crazy, zany place we call The Blogsophere. Also, as an Anthropologist,…
How Badly did Rebecca Watson Abuse Stef McGraw and Humanity in General?
Posted by Greg Laden on July 31, 2011 Here’s the talk.
Dating Advice from Rebecca
Posted by Greg Laden on July 25, 2011 Cut a hole in a watermelon! Brilliant! I think Rebecca Watson makes a great skeptic and spokesperson for the skeptics community, but I think her real calling is in giving dating advice.
The Skeptical Movement as a Dysfunctional Corporation with a Nightmare HR Problem
Posted by Greg Laden on July 23, 2011 Just an idea … not entirely work safe … below the fold.
Updates on Rebeccapocalypse, and Otter Matters
Posted by Greg Laden on July 20, 2011 People are screaming at me over on ERV blog about not making a formal announcement that Richard Dawkins is god-like because he’s donated a bunch of foundation money to a child care project. That’s wonderful that he did that, but I’m not a member of JREF, was not at TAM, do not get newsletters from…
Several items for your careful consideration …
Posted by Greg Laden on July 19, 2011 I’ve only got random stuff for you now, but it is all good stuff. Well, not really all good, but it is most definitively all stuff. First, we have Chris Mooney interviewing Rebecca Watson in a Point of Inquiry Podcast. Give it a listen. I’m happy to be one of the men who supports Rebecca.…
Elevators and Privilege: A Letter to Dawkins and a Link Farm
Posted by Greg Laden on July 6, 2011 In case you have not heard we are having an internet-wide discussion of … well, just click on all of the links below and read everything then you’ll know. I’ve included all the current links that I know of. If I’ve left something out, please put it in the comments and I’ll add it. Meanwhile…
Women in Elevators: A Man To Man Talk For The Menz
Posted by Greg Laden on July 5, 2011 You may prefer this VERY updated version of this post: HERE. I am not afraid of dogs, and most women are probably not “afraid of men.” Except I’m actually afraid of dogs and most women are justifiably afraid of men. If you get what I’m saying so far, go away and do something useful because…
Ladies, Richard Dawkins knows how to protect you from being raped in an elevator
Posted by Greg Laden on July 4, 2011 Recently, Richard Dawkins said (full quote below) that a woman should not be concerned about her own safety if she finds herself in an elevator (under some sort of threat, presumably), because it is trivially easy to get out of an elevator if you are under attack. I’m sure Richard is a very smart guy…
Shut up about everything all the time unless what you have to say is HITLER!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on July 3, 2011 And thus, structurally, Richard Dawkins, or his distant cousin Richard D. Poe (I am still not sure) has shut down the argument that the Elevator Guy acted inappropriately when he asked Rebecca Watson over for a cuppa joe at four O’clock in the AM, in an elevator, while she was on her way to bed.
Rebecca Watson, Barbara Drescher and the Elevator Guy
Posted by Greg Laden on July 2, 2011 Rebecca Watson did the right thing when she spoke about McGrew’s response too her (Watson’s) response to the Elevator Guy, and Barbara Drescher’s response to all of that is amazing. If you don’t know what I’m talking about here, it might be best to move on. Otherwise, here’s my two cents (and there are exactly…
Things for me to do, for you to do
Posted by Greg Laden on June 20, 2011 This is going to be a busy week. I’ve got three shelves to build (shelve = complex of shelves, not shelf); This must be done in a hailstorm of loud karaoke singing, interrupted only by actual hail storms, because, well, I live in Coon Rapids and that’s how it is; Amanda will be away all…
Desiree and Me on the Radio (update with podcast)
Posted by Greg Laden on June 5, 2011 The Podcast is HERE. Don’t forget to listen to the radio in a few minutes. In the mean time here’s a few links that I suspect those listening in will want (I’ll update or upgrade this list after the show if needed, and/or you can add your own links to the comments): Minneapolis CONvergence will…
Why don’t we replace these ugly mugs with some pretty female faces?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 23, 2011 I have a theory as to why atheism and skeptcisim tend to be old-white-guy activities (even when they are not) which might explain this picture: But I’ll tell you this theory only if certain conditions pertain: 1) You are someone I trust and 2) I’m slightly drunk.
The Apocalypse really is happening and the Rapture went off without a hitch
Posted by Greg Laden on May 22, 2011 It’s all just a matter of calibration. Let me ‘splain.
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