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'Psychology' Archive
The Pseudo Science of the Spoken Word: Part 3
Continued from Part 2
From campaign speeches to tent revivals to late-night talk radio, countless orators throughout human history have influenced, cajoled, inspired, and galvanized the ...
Singularity: The Sum of All Fears
The Singularity is a concept first discussed by Vernor Vinge in the 1980s. Later, Ray Kurzweil became one of its ...
Dark Greens and the ‘Consumerism’ Canard
A survey out last week from the Pew Research Center shows declining perceptions of necessity for a variety of household ...
Debunking The Power of Now: The Greatest Obstacle
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 ...
Debunking The Power of Now: Introduction
Eckhart Tolle is a first-class charlatan. Despite this fact, he has sold, and continues to sell millions of copies of his ...
The Brain, Engine of Creativity
Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...
Sanctuary in the Skies
The sky is falling. Or so it would seem, listening to the wails of outrage from frequent travelers for whom ...
So, How Thirsty Are You?
R Donaldson - February 2009
Water, Water
It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...
Slaying the Supernatural Imagination
The imagination is the mind's active scratch pad--our source of daydreams. Here we try out new ideas, we work out conflicts, ...
Dalai Lama Slams Sex in Post-Hoc Rationalization
Sex invariably spells trouble, says Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, on Friday said sex spelt fleeting satisfaction and trouble later, while ...
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, ‘Clairvoyant’
The above tagline (without the single quotes, of course) used to be one of the ways Elizabeth Clare Prophet was billed when appearing on ...
Irrationality About Diapers in the UK
Proving once again that irrationality and science cover-ups are not the exclusive province of the religious right, the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has "instructed ...
Ashamed To Share A Country…
"Socialism, Communism, go to Russia!" shouts the woman wearing a cross. "He should die," "Socialist Swine," "Terrorist." These are not the epithets of a ...
“Be Sealed” Against The Truth
A seal is supposed to separate the desirable from the undesirable, like an airlock on a spacecraft, a ring on a piston, or a ...
Nimby Ninnies
An article on CNN describes the "plight" of a man who doesn't like wind turbines: He hates the sight and he hates ...
Carbon Belch Day: When Morons Attack
Carbon Belch Day: When Morons Attack Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 by "hosting a barbecue, going ...
“Everyone Believes in Something”
Three simple words. "No, they don't." A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a former CUT member who I hadn't ...
The Sadomasochism of “Hard As Nails”
There's only one word for what unordained Catholic minister Justin Fatica does, and that's sadomasochism. Not in a sexual sense, of course, but in the sense ...
Refusing to Hide: Dialogue With a 12-Year-Old Atheist
This summer, two of my closest college friends and their 12-year-old daughter came for a visit. I hadn't seen them in a decade. These guys, (at ...
Leon R. Kass’ Sentimentality Flayed by Logic
Well, for Leon R Kass’ benefit, the reality is that we are indeed a very small speck in a very large universe. It's also a reality that many of the ...
The Home Schooling Question
[UPDATE 11.01.07: From some of the comments, it's clear this should have been two separate stories. There are really two separate problems with home schooling. The ...
Drought, Peak Oil, and Climate Change: the Future is Now
Climate change denialists are crackpots of the worst kind. In this article, I will demonstrate how they are also dangerous. Whether or not they are also ...
9/11 Conspiracy Wackos Disrupt Bill Maher
October 19, 2007 was the wildest Bill Maher show ever. Several people screaming about WTC "building 7" and other incomprehensible nonsense disrupted Maher's panel discussion, and had to ...
Repressed Shadow’s a Bitch
Utah ranks No. 1 in the nation — and sometimes the world — for using Google to search the Web for such terms as "Jesus," "family history," "Harry Potter," "Mormon," ...
God gets all credit and no blame in Peru earthquake
A powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake has hit the coast of Peru, killing at least 337 people and injuring hundreds more, Peru's civil defence institute says. TV reports said 17 people ...