“News regarding skepticism, atheism, socialism, politics, social media, and other items of interest”
Curated by
Daniel Stevens
Robert Todd Carroll's blog on motivated reasoning. 
T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet. 
Psychiatry's diagnostic guidebook gets its first major update in 30 years. 
The JREF exposes charlatans and helps people defend themselves from paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. 
It turns out that Joel Arend, who is pretending to represent the Navy SEALS in order to Swifboat President Obama over the bin Laden raid, has no SEALS from the bin Laden raid in his organization. 
Political candidates across Texas are gearing up for the state's May 29 primaries. And as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, that partisan campaigning extends to candidates who often promise to be impartial: the state’s judges.
Robert Todd Carroll's blog on subjective validation. 
It sometimes seems like there is a huge swath of the general public that will just believe anything — they are immune to skepticism and compelled to accept the most obvious scams. 
A provocative new study from the University of California, Berkeley suggests highly religious individuals are less likely to help a stranger than less religious... 
Over the next few days, Google plans to bring Gmail's Labs translation service to all Gmail users. The service enables users to automatically translate email in other languages into their own language. 
The date of Occupy's strike has ties to the eight-hour day movement, immigrant workers and American anarchism... 
The iconic writer Stephen King scolds the superrich (including himself—and Mitt Romney) for not giving back. |
The JREF exposes charlatans and helps people defend themselves from paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. 
One adventurous engineer makes a compelling case to boldly build what no man has built before. Could the crazy thing actually work?
Robert Todd Carroll's blog on the illusion of control. 
“THEY hang out in pockets,” says Richard Pan, a Sacramento paediatrician and member of California’s legislature. 
There are a lot of car stereotypes out there, like that Toyota builds dull appliances. 
Sceptics often face the argument that we should just leave the promotion superstition alone, that it is all just harmless fun. 
During an election-year clash over which U.S. political party has the best prescription for curing unemployment, Democrats can argue that almost two-thirds of private-sector job growth in the past five decades came with them in the White House. 
How dare the French and Greeks reject a failed strategy! 
PARIS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy's chances of holding on to power were fading two days before France's election runoff, with far-right and centrist leaders refusing to endorse him and his usually... 
For years, Project Prevention has been paying poor, addicted women not to procreate -- now, with money from the far right, it's going global. 
Once a promising young magazine writer, the bow-tied Daily Caller pundit has come to epitomize right-wing hackdom VIDEO... 
Is this classic tale of the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls fact or fiction? |
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