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.
# politics
Professor Massimo Pigliucci is trying to make a case for accommodating believers railing against science and fact-based education and discourse with some very flimsy arguments...
# evolution
According to David Scharfenberg, Ken Miller is the only sane, rational person in the debate about how evolution should be taught, a debate led almost exclusively by foaming-at-the-mouth irrational extremists on both sides.
# politics
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels teaches a master class in mindless, empty, hostile zealotry and stringing together supposedly fear-inducing buzzwords.
# politics
Theologian Stephen Prothero would be happy to engage atheists. He'd just like them to be attractive ladies his age and type...
# science
The AAI chose to ride the fame of an atheist anti-vaccine and alt med crank instead of awarding someone who actually advances science and skepticism.
# politics
Religious commentators are trying to soothe scared believers that atheism is just a fad. In reality, skepticism of organized religion is quickly growing.
# politics
After Stalin's crackdowns were over, the USSR was a lot less hostile to religion than Americans are often taught.
# oddities
Atheism should not become bizarro theism, even though it's human nature for it to lean in that direction.