1. Belief, God Genes, and the Findings of Science
(Religion/Atheism)

...ndash; The Evolutionary Origins of Belief Wolpert examines the exposure Alice experiences to the irrational thinking of the White Queen. Alice finds it difficult to believe in impossible things and...

2. Leading vaccine scaremonger debunked
(Medicine/General)

...g or afraid to place the burden of potential vaccine risks on their child. Dr. Sears falls for this line of thinking, and leads parents to believe that certain vaccines protect the community but not t...

3. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

...rt; there are no text books from the outside world, the children are guided towards ‘pictorial’ thinking to encourage clairvoyance. Steiner education is an initiation, created to feed anth...

4. Religious sect 'brainwashing' Maties
(Religion/Shofar Shogood)

...his is an academic institution where students are encouraged to question and do research, pursue scientific thinking." Author and former head of the journalism department, George Claassen, who is...

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

... recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. On the one...

6. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...le become too critical of unjustified beliefs; to the contrary, these horrors testify to the dangers of not thinking critically enough about specific secular ideologies. Needless to say, a rational ar...

7. Put a Little Science in Your Life
(Science/General)

...enced. I've spoken with so many people over the years whose encounters with science in school left them thinking of it as cold, distant and intimidating. They happily use the innovations that scie...

8. Goblins in the cupboard
(Paranormal/General)

...ed beliefs is intuiting where the respect for another's culture ends and a healthy critique of outmoded thinking starts.  Despite this, a magazine at my elbow insists that I should prepare m...

9. The Neuroscience of Illusion
(Science/General)

...the properties of neurons, artists had devised a series of techniques to “trick” the brain into thinking that a flat canvas was three-dimensional, or that a series of brushstrokes was actu...

10. Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear
(Religion/General)

...stioning the truth of many biblical stories. "The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies;...

11. Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong
(Science/General)

... the hard way about the work that goes into acquiring specialized scientific knowledge. In a recent book, Rethinking Expertise, he says that what bridges the gap—and what keeps science working&m...

12. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...rface. The subterfuge is rendered all but invisible to the general public by political correctness, wishful thinking, and "white guilt." This is where we find sinister people successfully po...

13. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
(Good news/Humour)

... has evolved. It now encompasses all kinds of sexuality without fuss, even from the tabloids. "I keep thinking, 'Where are the headlines about this in The Sun?'," Davies admits. &qu...

14. Hatred and Ignorance on the Web
(Religion/General)

... defending religion then saying I am not fond of it. There is a difference between not liking something and thinking it is stupid. Most aspects of religion I find ARE stupid and nonsensical, hence my ...

15. Exorcism undergoes a revival across Europe
(Religion/General)

...emories are still fresh of a 23-year-old Bavarian woman who died of starvation in 1976 after two priests -- thinking she was possessed -- subjected her to more than 60 exorcisms. In 2002, a German bis...

16. Why multiculturalism must be abandoned
(Religion/General)

...rry. Her husband, Imran, has kept her isolated, and she does not speak a word of English. "I came here thinking he'd treat me well," she says. "But he keeps hurting me. He brought m...

17. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...eas.” To which I can only respond with one of Blaise Pascal’s more mordant observations, “Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.&...

18. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...tate that can be turned on and off like a switch, and when it is on, a distinctive mind-set commandeers our thinking. This is the mind-set that makes us deem actions immoral (“killing is wrong&r...

19. Comedy Cuts : The History of Creationist Thought
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

British comedian Robin Ince presenting his succinct interpretation of the thinking behind Creationism   KdocQHsPCNM   VidPost

20. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...ing practical example. Many dog owners will attest to the ability of a dog or cat to know what the owner is thinking. A few minutes before going on a walk, a dog gets excited and restless; on the day ...

21. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
(Medicine/Self Help)

...ly twentieth-century African-American leaders Marcus Garvey and Father Divine adopted some classic positive-thinking ideals -both were proponents of New Thought, a loose collection of beliefs about mi...

22. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

...k to completely distinct sets of questions, and hence never come into conflict. The other is to assert that thinking scientifically does not lead to rejection of theism, but in fact that religious bel...

23. Secret Societies Shape Western Politics
(Religion/General)

Article demonstrating paranoid thinking rather than critical thinking backed up by facts.... Harare, Jan 10, 2008 (The Herald/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- IN the foreword to his book, Captai

24. Designer microbes to save us all
(Good news/All)

... says Noubar Afeyan, CEO of Flagship Ventures. ``They're applying fundamental engineering principles to thinking about interchangeable parts and standard protocols,'' says Afeyan, who'...

25. Debunking 'The Secret'
(Paranormal/The Secret / What the Bleep)

...teps on the toes of the Buddhist teaching that says desire causes suffering. Couldn't sitting there and thinking about what you want, and visualizing what you do not have go the next level to desi...

26. Vatican calls on the faithful for mass apology for sex scandals
(Religion/General)

... in front of a consecrated host representing the body of Jesus. The initiative has all the hallmarks of the thinking of Pope Benedict, and would certainly not have been launched in this way without hi...

27. Rational Quotes
(Static Content)

...n a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." George Bernard Shaw All thinking men are atheists. -Ernest Hemingway, American author "The day will come when...