Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
A new survey reveals that religion is being weaponised and fused into Republican politics. This will greatly harm both democracy and also sincere faith. First I’ll cover off some of the deeply shocking insights that the survey reveals, and then I’ll tell you what I’ll be doing to push back against it. The core issue is … Read more
Christian Nationalist Reality Check — Issue #1 This is the first part of what will be a weekly series. There is a rising strain of political rhetoric within segments of American Christianity that frames ordinary policy disagreements as spiritual warfare. Political opponents are no longer described as mistaken or misguided, they are described as demonic, … Read more
It’s not a typo, so no, I don’t actually mean Nun, but rather people who identify as “None”, and yet at the same time also religious. “The Nones” are people who say they have no religious affiliation. When asked about religion by pollsters, the answer they give is “None” or “Nothing in particular”. So what does this … Read more
You might, or perhaps might not be aware that Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist died on Jan 13, 2026, at the age of 68. It was expected, he knew it was coming and was in his last days, he had terminal prostate cancer. The interesting twist here is that he decided to take Pascal’s wager … Read more
We will get into the details of the latest NIH Pandemic policy and the 8 reasons why it is so utterly batshit crazy shortly. What is inevitable is that at some point there will be another Pandemic. We don’t know when and we don’t know how lethal. All we know is that at some point … Read more
Let’s start with the short version: there is no “War on Christmas.” What we have instead is a recurring moral panic that is a carefully manufactured, endlessly recycled, and loudly performed by people who mistake cultural change for persecution. Every year, right on cue, someone is outraged by a red Starbucks cup, or by the … Read more