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FIRE Probably Underestimates How Badly Universities are Burning
Sociologist and Skeptic Research Center chief researcher Kevin McCaffree reviews the latest survey findings from Freedom for Individual Rights and…
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Tucker Carlson, Professional Bullshitter
The popular podcast host promotes a pseudo-historian who says Hitler was a misunderstood peacemaker and the Holocaust needs revising.
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Probability and Waves
A Synthesis of Three New Books, reviewed by Chris Edwards
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Scientific American Goes Woke
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Why I Am Not a Christian
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What is a Woman, Anyway?
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Redux—WPATH Edition
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Moral Equivalency and its Discontents
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Trans Doper
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Illustrating the Past
Donald Prothero reviews historian of science Richard Milner's new book on paleoartist and wildlife painter Jay Matternes, who brought the past to life…
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Ray Kurzweil and the Singularitarians
Is the Singularity really nearer now? I offer an overview of the man and his ideas, and Chris Edwards reviews Kurzweil's new book The Singularity is…
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The Scientist-Therapist Chasm in Psychology
Its origins and persistence, by guest columnist Carol Tavris
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Trump-Hitler
The social cost of political pretending, by guest columnist Kevin McCaffree
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Conspiracy or Incompetence?
What was really behind the Trump assassination attempt, Part II
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Lone Assassins
The attempt to assassinate President Trump is just the latest in a long line of mostly mentally deranged solo actors, Part I
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A Residue of Anomalies
Review of Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers by Joshua Blu Buhs (University of Chicago Press, July 2024)
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