The Temptation of Misrepresenting the Past

As some of you may have seen, one of Lisa’s posts and one of mine have been nominated for inclusion into The Young Australian Skeptics Blog Anthology. I’d like to congratulate my fellow nominee, and say I’m very happy the two of us got noticed. I’ve been a writer for a while, but I’ve never [...]

Rationally Speaking Podcast-Early Release for You!

New York City Skeptics is proud to announce that our new podcast, Rationally Speaking, will officially debut on Sunday, January 31st, but you can get a special preview and listen to the first episode right now by visiting rationallyspeakingpodcast.org or subscribing via iTunes.

Rationally Speaking is hosted by Massimo Pigliucci and Julia Galef, contributors to Gotham [...]

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Some stuff that was sent my way via the series of tubes:

New York City Skeptic’s own Massimo Pigliucci is honored by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry as a notable figure in science and skepticism. Congrats, Massimo!

It boggles the mind that we are still dealing with the issue of creationism in the science classroom. But the [...]

One more on the relationship between atheism and skepticism

I’d like to make a few comments on Jake Dickerman’s piece about Michael De Dora’s recent talk concerning the relationship between skepticism and atheism. (A fuller version of my thinking on this topic can be found at Rationally Speaking).

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I learned about QualiaSoup’s You Tube Channel from a post on Massimo Pigliucci’s blog Rationally Speaking. I think that this video on evolution is not to be missed, so I wanted to embed it here:

He has lots of other terrific clips, and has gained a bit of renoun for his straighforward manner and lovely illustrations. [...]

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