Hokum-Balderdash Assay

A friend had to procure some fun run application forms over at R.O.X. in Bonifacio High Street, Global City. I tagged along and on our way ...

Here are doctors who've implicitly took an oath to be superstitious and peddle the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy . Needless to say ...

Earlier this week I said I found it alarming that a Heel affiliate was promoting what is probably a quack treatment for dengue. I did some ...

Accompanied a friend to a trade exhibit last Saturday and encountered two companies promoting and selling woo. 1. Homeopathy and Homotoxicol...

Just learned of that lecture series on ethics . The first two episodes are already up for viewing. Succeeding ones will be uploaded once a w...

Among the most important people in my life are my nephews--my sister's children. Over the past couple of years I've become some sort...

When religionists jump up in joy upon hearing a supposed medical miracle what I hear their consciousness/unconscious telling me is: I'm...

Sit down, close your eyes, relax, and be mindful of your breathing. Now repeat after me: "Kalenbo utam, mitao grekkang tho. Kalenbo uta...

God: Why, look who's here! What took you so long? You: Uhh, what do you mean, God? God: Duh! 30 years ago I prepared a welcome feast for...

Philosopher Simon Blackburn reviews Karen Armstrong's latest opus: The Case for God: What Religion Really Means . Armstrong is a forme...

Learned of the following via the Center for Inquiry . It's an article by physicist Lawrence Krauss in yesteday's Wall Street Journal...

Via Michael Nielsen Religion does turn some into pricks.

A friend brought to my attention (via a forwarded email that has been circulating for some time it seems) a certain Professor Jane Plant who...

What's wrong with the following argument? Mad men should be put in mental asylums. Annie's dad is mad--he just berated her for one f...

Three years ago Oprah lent her weight to a book entitled A Million Little Pieces , written by James Frey. It's an autobiography about hi...

The latest from the Vatican : Cardinal William Levada, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the Cathol...

Imagine there's this top pilot, the best in the world. S/he can fly any plane blindfolded from the smallest to the biggest, commercial o...

A group of women--at least two of whom are purportedly scientists--have started what they dub The Faith of Britain . And they have marked Ma...

In an ad campaign by atheists in London late last year they had buses bearing the slogan "There probably is no God. So stop worrying an...

Months ago I came across news that psychologist David Myers was coming out with his latest book A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists...