Just a quick round-up today, of a few things which I might talk about in more depth if it wasn’t Friday night and I wasn’t distracted by pizza, Mitchell & Webb, and being extremely lazy:
- Orac on divisiveness within the world of woo. I love this, and it’s a great summary of the situation. Bigfoot fanatics scoffing at chiropractors, ufologists distancing themselves from astrologists… I get to laugh and feel smugly superior. Those are two of my favourite things!
- Hemant sums up another debate, on “accommodationism” in atheism. I’m distinctly on PZ’s side on this one. Science does directly contradict a lot of specific religious claims. Not being upfront about that is disingenuous. We’re all for people’s right to their own beliefs, and it’s clearly true that people can be good scientists and still believe in God, because there are thousands of fine examples all over the place. But it’s really not our place to be bowing and scraping as we back apologetically away from saying anything factual which might offend someone’s faith.
- Richard Dawkins has been putting up some very brief and very cool little edumacational videos on YouTube lately. Go look.
- And the latest Skeptic’s Circle is up! And I’m in it! With massive chess pieces and spiders! Yes, really. Go look at that too, it’ll all make sense.
And with that, goodnight.
