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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

[G. C. Lichtenberg (1742-99), German physicist, philosopher. Aphorisms, "Notebook L," aph. 16 (written 1765-99; tr. by R. J. Hollingdale, 1990)]

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Skepticism:

On the high velocity rotation of interred organic remains

Let us all doff our hats in astonished disbelief at the brazen arrogance of the people who have created the Carl Sagan Institute in Brazil. That is, the Carl Sagan Institute…of UFOlogy. That's right, a cranky gang of saucernuts have...

What I’m reading right now is Top Secret

Sastra here. I'm about halfway through, and really enjoying, Robert Price's new book, Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms. Bob Price has an interesting background: he started out as a roaring Pentacostal Minister, gradually grew into a high-end...

Inconceivable!

It has been announced that Phil Plait is to be the new president of the James Randi Educational Foundation. This can't be. I've never been entertained by Phil doing a card trick. Besides, James Randi is supposed to go on...

Saucer people are just plain weird

One of the splendid people I met in Denver told me about her attendance at a bizarre lecture a few months ago — and she sent me a link to her summary. If you want to experience a second hand...

My morning at Mensa

Yesterday, I blitzed through a tiny slice of the Mensa meeting in Denver. My time was really tight, so after arriving on Thursday for a fabulous Pharyngufest, I only got to sit through two talks in the morning session...

Faith-healing infringes on the AMA's prerogative

World-wide weirdness

Lest Phelps and the Texas Supreme Court leave the unfortunate impression that the US is the sole repository of lunacy in the world, Ben Goldacre's latest column is about linking mobile phone signals to suicides — there's a bit of...

Sorry — I'm not talking to you today

This weekend has been busy — yesterday, I gave my talk at the Amaz!ng Meeting, and I think it went OK. I tried to go against type and gave a talk that was all science and biology*, no debunking, no...

Vegas, baby!

As you read this, I'm on an airplane winging off to Las Vegas for The Amazing Meeting (Amazing Schedule here). I understand that I am expected to be Amazing, but usually all I can manage is a low-key Interesting, so...

The consequences of the erosion of critical thinking

Colleen Leduc has an autistic child named Victoria who is enrolled in a public school. She recently got a terrifying phone call — her daughter was being sexually abused. We parents know well the fear and worry a threat to...

Now I'm embarrassed

Minnesota is a pretty darn good state, usually fairly progressive, but sometimes…sometimes it can plunge off the deep end into the credulous muck of woo. My state has just approved the title of doctor for naturopaths. I imagine the MDs...

The Sheldrake phenomenon

Richard Dawkins interviewed Rupert Sheldrake on Sheldrake's remarkable assertions about the existence of psychic abilities. Here's Sheldrake's rationalization: He then said that in a romantic spirit he himself would like to believe in telepathy, but there just wasn't any evidence...

An enlightening series

There are 7 more parts to this — follow the related videos at youtube....

We happy hooligans

My brief summary of the position of apologists for religion, The Courtier's Reply, continues to rankle the believers, and they continue to make responses that only make me laugh at their cluelessness. The standard rebuttal is to claim that I...

Martians!

Mars seems to bring out the kooks. I was pointed to the bizarre Xenotech "research" site, which consists entirely of the delusional fantasies of Sir Charles W. Shults III, Scientist (yes, that's what he calls himself). His research program?...

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