'Critical Thought' Archive
March 17th, 2013 / Critical Thought, Science /
Today's topic concerns one of the oldest forms of religious apologia: deliberately confusing the relationship between probability and mystery. ...
October 4th, 2010 / Critical Thought, Psychology /
1. What important things do I believe I could accomplish that no one else could?
2. What's my second or third ...
September 11th, 2010 / Critical Thought, Current Affairs, Religion, Religion Inspired Murders /
[The human] moral sense licenses aggression against others as a way to prevent or punish immoral acts. That is fine ...
May 4th, 2010 / Critical Thought, Psychology /
I wanted to chime in with my two cents about the question of scientific morality. Sam Harris has laid out ...
February 10th, 2010 / Critical Thought, Science, Stupid Things /
An article forwarded to me by a friend brings up the old New-Age argument, this time dolled up in ...
January 30th, 2010 / Atheism, Critical Thought, Psychology, Religion, Stupid Things /
Once in a while you strike Facebook gold. The kinds of discussions I used to have here on BSJ ...
January 1st, 2010 / Critical Thought, Psychology, Stupid Things /
I don't suffer fools gladly. As BSJ moves into a new decade, I've decided that certain subjects are not worth ...
December 31st, 2009 / Critical Thought, Energy Transition, Newswire /
As one of the most powerful liars in the world, Matt Drudge takes perverse pleasure in twisting facts to fit his right-wing denialist agenda. He's got this down to a ...
December 16th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Energy Transition, Psychology, Society /
"How can we ever agree, Like the rest of the world, We grow farther apart.
I swear you don't listen to ...
November 8th, 2009 / Atheism, Critical Thought, Religion /
Editorials slamming "new atheism" as "strident," "tedious," "uninformed," or the kicker, "fundamentalist" crop up every week like new mushrooms sprouting ...
September 8th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Current Affairs /
A few weeks back a friend of mine on Facebook asked me to fill out a questionnaire of "50 things ...
August 17th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Psychology, Stupid Things /
I've been called out today by former friend and colleague Francois Tremblay over a Facebook discussion (PDF) started by his ...
August 8th, 2009 / Critical Thought /
"Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing ...
August 6th, 2009 / Atheism, Critical Thought /
Sam Harris has delivered a one-two punch of brilliant essays criticizing President Obama's nomination of Francis Collins to be the new ...
February 22nd, 2009 / Books, Critical Thought, Power of Now, Psychology /
Chapter 1: You are not Your Mind
Subhead: The Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment pp. 11-16
Tolle encourages "finding the gold inside yourself." It's ...
February 16th, 2009 / Books, Critical Thought, Power of Now, Psychology /
Eckhart Tolle is a first-class charlatan. Despite this fact, he has sold, and continues to sell millions of copies of his ...
February 15th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Psychology, Science /
Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...
February 5th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Energy Transition, Newswire /
I received an email taking me to task for comparing the 9/11 truthers with climate change deniers. The correspondent claimed that while climate science was solid, the 9/11 truthers might ...
December 20th, 2008 / Atheism, Bigotry, Critical Thought /
Right-wing bloggers and pundits churn out a steady stream of cookie-cutter articles insisting on the "impossibility" of moral atheism, and presenting ...
November 30th, 2008 / Critical Thought, Science /
My good friend Adam Lee, also known as Ebonmuse, who runs one of the most popular and enduring atheist sites Daylight Atheism, wrote ...
September 4th, 2008 / Celebrities, Critical Thought /
"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." --Christopher Hitchens Thanks to Google search or maybe word-of-mouth, a couple of ...
August 3rd, 2008 / Celebrities, Critical Thought /
Despite what they believe, or how they may view themselves, what is the appropriate response to psychics who take advantage of the vulnerable bereaved ...
April 19th, 2008 / Bigotry, Books, Critical Thought, Religion /
Oh, how the credulous are shaking in their boots. Searching high and low like jonesing addicts for their security blankets, their soporifics. Now comes ...
April 12th, 2008 / Atheism, Critical Thought, Science /
"People in the middle ages didn't know about radio waves, yet they were everywhere. They just didn't have receivers in those days. How can ...
April 7th, 2008 / Critical Thought, Science /
Recently I was called out by Elisheva Hannah Levin, a hypocritical homeschooling mom (supposedly a degreed Biologist). Levin balked at my stance (...