Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# sex
Thanks to the Duggar scandals, we're getting a peek at what Quiverful literature says about premarital sex, and its contents are completely untethered from any semblance of reality.
# politics
While priests are looking how to get more butts in pews they're willing to consider anything to explain dropping church attendance. Anything except people losing faith.
# politics
Atheists will not outshout religious zealots because the zealots will drag them down to a reality and fact-free screaming match and beat them with experience.
# politics
Skeptical groups and bloggers seem to have split into two camps. One wants to teach and promote science. The other has very different priorities.
# politics
A group of Christians illustrates everything wrong with one-sided interfaith dialogue in their conclusions after conducting a survey of atheists.
# politics
Pundits are hailing Pat Robertson's hateful tirade against atheists after an attack on a Sikh temple as a step forward in inter-faith relations. That's both telling and disturbing.
# politics
R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens, 04.13.1949 - 12.15.2011
# oddities
What does it take to sway an atheist? Skeptical bloggers weigh in...
# tech
Ray Kurzweil is an atheist by the colloquial definition of the term. But when it comes to the spirit of the term, instead of the letter, I would hesitate to agree.
# politics
The latest scholarly take on atheism from Conservapedia: "hur hur, u r fat..."