Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
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
You can be fooled, I can be fooled, we can all be fooled. It is inevitable that at some point like me you also will have believed something and then later discovered it was not actually true at all. How did you then respond to that reveal? Like most you would have changed you mind … Read more
This is not a posting about stuff that happened at a school, but rather is about how a fanatical right-wing legal group totally and completely misrepresented what actually happened, simply to maintain their funding and status as “champions for Christianity”. Yes, I know, a right-wing religious group blatantly misrepresenting something for $$$ is something you … Read more
On Sept 18, Politico’s Dave Brown has dropped what just has to be the most epic twitter thread of the year (so far). My postings on Medium usually have a paywall (to help cover costs), but for this one, no paywall. That’s principally because the content is Dave Brown doing all the heavy lifting, and … Read more
The Followers of Christ Church in Oregon embrace the belief that prayers are all you need. If your child becomes ill or sick, then just pray them better, no calling on doctors. What we learn via an article within The Oregonian (dated 2017) has been the consequence of this over the decades … Of 78 children … Read more
Ever wanted to be a teacher in Oklahoma? If so, then I do indeed have a test for you. However, this is not an ordinary test in any meaningful way at all, but instead is something else. OK, a quick reveal. This test is just ideology propaganda and has been created by the Prager University Foundation, for religious … Read more