Skeptophilia

Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week

Friday, February 13, 2015

A glowing report from Georgia

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It may sound biased of me, but I think one thing should be an ironclad requirement for holding public office: an adequate understanding of s...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Atheism, anti-theism, and murder

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There's this thing called the No True Scotsman fallacy .  In its more innocent forms, it manifests as a redefinition of terms if you...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Bias, served warm

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Of all of the logical fallacies, the most completely maddening one is confirmation bias . This term refers to the tendency of people to a...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The loveliest of all was the unicorn

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It is probably my own lack of tolerance, empathy, and compassion that makes me laugh out loud when I hear the "arguments" people u...
Monday, February 9, 2015

The random comment department

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Two news stories I came across this weekend are mostly interesting in juxtaposition. First, a  paper in the Journal of Advertising ,  by I...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

A miscalculation of scale

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In the first pages of Stephen King's book The Tommyknockers , a woman out walking her dog in rural Maine stubs her toe on an object prot...
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Friday, February 6, 2015

Crusader mentality

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When I hear people make ridiculous and deliberately inflammatory statements, sometimes I have to resist the temptation to grab them by the s...
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Gordon Bonnet
I'm a fiction author and blogger who lives in the frozen wilds of Upstate New York. I am also an online writing coach/consultant -- ask if you want more details!
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