1. How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
(Science/General)

...also used orally for common cold, cough and bronchitis, fever and colds, inflammation of mouth and pharynx, tendency to infection, gout, liver disorders, ulcerative colitis, cancer, rheumatic pain, an...

2. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...ion constitutes the core of their moral identities. One of the enduring pathologies of human culture is the tendency to raise children to fear and demonize other human beings on the basis of religion....

3. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda
(Religion/General)

...rst book, The Selfish Gene, that we should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. Darwin himself said the same thing, in various diffe...

4. Getting the public to pay attention to good science
(Science/General)

...eat from the chaff The importance of quality information was driven home by a recent study that revealed a tendency for false or misleading information regarding breast cancer to appear on web sites ...

5. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
(Science/General)

...advice. T. J. Jackson Lears, a cultural historian who edits the quarterly review Raritan, said, "The tendency to this sort of lamentation is perennial in American history," adding that in ...

6. Belief in Belief
(Religion/Atheism)

...shy;scene cynicism. But the racketeering and exploitative side of religion, as with its no-less-mark­ed tendency to generate wars, atro­cities, and repressions, isn’t the whole story. Wh...

7. Fish out of water: Your Inner Fish
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ups can be extremely prolonged. The longest uninterrupted hiccups in a person lasted from 1922 to 1990. Our tendency to develop hiccups is another influence of our past. There are two issues to think ...