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A secular imperative to love
This post responds to yet another interesting dialogue with Terry Sissons, the author of The Other I. Karen Armstrong: The case for God It followed from the last of a series I had written about Karen… more →
thinking makes it so
The is-ought problem
wrote 17 hours ago: (Not without a good justification, that is. I’m not saying the problem can’t be resolved … more →
Backyard Butchering: Loving Animals to Death
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wrote 1 week ago: Yesterday I received the following comment to my post, All Meat is the Product of Cruelty and Exploi … more →
Hard wired 8: The evolutionary environment
wrote 2 weeks ago: What do we mean by EEA? The acronym ‘EEA’ stands for the ‘Environment of Evolution … more →
Top 10 Retorts to Hunter Fallacies
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Hunters’ arguments and rationalizations for their sport are so repetitive and predictable that, to s … more →
Credo hoc: Morality
wrote 3 weeks ago: This is the first in what will hopefully become a series about what I currently believe as a freethi … more →
Might Same-Sex Relations Be Evolutionarily Advantageous?
wrote 3 weeks ago: A prominent fallacious argument used against same-sex marriage is the good ‘ol ‘we … more →
"Why choosing nature will only advance human societies"
wrote 1 month ago: Mother NatureSource: Preventdisease.com Marco Torres wrote this thought-provoking article pub … more →
Podcast #66: The Schumann Resonance
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wrote 2 months ago: This is a somewhat shorter episode, mainly because I’m working on three grants at the moment d … more →
Radioactive Brazil nuts and the naturalistic fallacy
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wrote 3 months ago: Brazil nuts. Source: Wikipedia Believe it or not, just about all the food we consume has tiny amount … more →
Butter is good for your heart !!
wrote 3 months ago: This story from last week interested me, as it seemed to contradict all of the health advice we … more →
Adoption, the Loving (Yet Inferior) Option
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wrote 4 months ago: Image via PoliticalCartoons.com. I’m trying to limit the extent to which I complain about craz … more →
Evolution and the Naturalistic Fallacy
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wrote 5 months ago: I have a sad, horrible addiction to The (He)artist(e) Formerly Known As Roissy, a smalltime pickup a … more →
Science in Aggregate: Week 49
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wrote 5 months ago: I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this science/pop culture goodness. You c … more →
Does Mother Nature Always Know What's Best?
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wrote 5 months ago: There has always been a lot of arguing over “organic” and “natural” foods. Recently, the brunt of th … more →
The War on Fairness
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wrote 5 months ago: It’s rare when a person does something that is at once so idiotic and so heinous that it brings disc … more →
Appeal to nature - the authenticity axiom
wrote 6 months ago: Is natural always better than synthetic, or is that a red flag? How to recognise this tactic Simple. … more →
Piling Up Small Changes, The Selective Skepticism Of Replacing One Fallacy With Another, And The Seductive Lure of Hubris Versus The Dispassionate Rules Of Nature
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wrote 7 months ago: Hello friends – We keep on finding things that seem to very gently alter developmental trajectory to … more →
Cinnamon for for diabetes? Why "natural" doesn't mean safe or effective
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wrote 9 months ago: Here’s a scenario I encountered that will be familiar to many pharmacists. It starts with a cu … more →
Sex, Monogamy, and Human Nature - A Response to Dan Savage
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wrote 11 months ago: This summer, whenever I haven’t been writing or reading about etiquette, I’ve been listening to Dan … more →
