If you don't know what The Secret is, consider yourself lucky to have escaped one more instance of the sort of pseudo-mystical self-hel...

Rebecca Watson's talk from the CFI Leadership Conference, on why the secular movement is important for women, even when it makes them le...

Prior to the start of Skepchickcon, the skeptics track at CONvergence , Skepchick hosted a workshop on effective activism, led by Desiree Sc...

Thank you to Bug Girl for suggesting this. If you are a survivor and wish to have your name added to this letter, let me know, either in the...

Oh, look. Another preacher person is in trouble for using the authority of his position to get him some . The woman told police that her spi...

I'm in the middle of a migraine, and Blogger has royally pissed me off over the last couple of days. Today, I'll just point to a co...

Mike McRae, Tribal Scientist, indulged me in a discussion of his goals surrounding his latest salvo in the accommodation debate. There are ...

Or, Theology as Pseudophilosophy There's been a rash of criticism lately of New Atheists (or Gnu Atheists, popular atheists, internet at...

Juniper Shoemaker is a very busy woman. She's working on her biomedical PhD while filling in the gaps that an B.A. in English will leave...

Because there are a few people who read this blog who wouldn't find this any other way. And really, that would be a shame.

On Thursday , I noted the attempt of certain proponents of evolutionary psychology (specifically that dealing with matters of gender and sex...

It isn't terribly difficult to find well-written, skeptical pieces on evolutionary psychology. In fact, several have come out quite rece...