Hokum-Balderdash Assay

Skepticism, Naturalism, Critical & Scientific Thinking

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Is Weinberg right?

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I have much respect for physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg. He's an atheist and has little qualms in calling a spade a ...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The wave of change

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I am overjoyed that America has chosen its first African-American president. Barack Obama is the man of the hour and for the hour. I'm n...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Poor Nikki

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I just received the following spam SMS (formatting and caps as in original): Hi there Nikki here There is only ONE TRUE GOD. Christians Un...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

When adults are no more enlightened than their kids

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In a city in Mindoro, Philippines, some two dozen students mostly female have experienced "seizures" in the past two months. The I...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Cracker mania

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The brouhaha is now all over the blogosphere. Instead of swallowing the consecrated wafer given to him by the priest, a college student too...
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Thai woo

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Former Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sagely advice for his troubled country: Be patient with the headache-inducing situati...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

A theistic psychologists's letter to skeptics and atheists

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I just learned via psychologist of religion Michael Nielsen that later this year psychologist David Myers ' new book, A Friendly Letter...
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When you wish

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Wishful thinking is part and parcel of childhood. The brains of the young are still very much in the process of developing "higher...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Persist in asking "How do you know?"

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I recently discovered that the Philippine Star has daily theological one-liners printed at the bottom margin of the back page. You can'...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Ducks unlimited

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It's one thing when the man and woman on the street trips and makes a logical booboo. It's brow-raising and elicits incredulity when...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

More than a touch of bias

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Just got wind of a 3-year Stanford University clinical trial that's underway to study the efficacy of Healing Touch (HT) [1]. What is HT...
Monday, May 26, 2008

He's baaack!

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That deluded priest Fernando Suarez is back in the country. At the end of this month the Pied Piper is leading his flock to Montemaria, Bat...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

God, I.D.

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Last week Fr. Fernando Suarez celebrated a healing Mass in Los Angeles, California. Some 14,000 attended. Well you're in for a surprise...
Sunday, May 04, 2008

Jesus says, Mo says

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As always the barmaid hits the nail on the head. She tells Jesus and Mo , "You cannot escape the fact that when you say 'God says X...
Saturday, May 03, 2008

Ethical development

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Imagine the following: There is in fact a god or gods. This deity or committee of supernatural beings in fact created the universe, is omnip...
Monday, April 07, 2008

Faithing all the way

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When I asked a Christian friend how her church defined faith, she directed me to the bible, specifically to Hebrews 11:1. Her text follows t...
Saturday, April 05, 2008

Cherry-picking Cathy the Catholic

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The number of variants among believers was brought home to me recently when I confronted Cathy of Touched by a Miracle about my com...
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Friday, April 04, 2008

Does Suraez have a FPP?

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Some 25 years ago psychologists Sheryl Wilson and Theodore Barber identified what they called fantasy-prone personality (FPP). The 14 charac...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Believers are unbiased and objective

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While in a car on a 10-minute ride with, among others, a pastor and his wife, the conversation turned to health and disease. The pastor'...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Holy placebo (and snake oil)

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In his March 20 2008 article " Reflections on healing, faith, funds, Fr. Suarez " Fr. Virgilio Aderiano Abad Ojoy, theologian and ...
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