The Sokal hoax, for those of you unfamiliar, a stunt where the professor of physics Alan Sokal, in response to growing dismay over misuses and abuses of scientific literature, sent a fake submission “liberally salted with nonsense”, to the...
Topics: Child Welfare, Crime, Culture, Roman Polanski, Stupid Hollywood Memes

{"title":"Is the campaign to set Roman Polanski free, Hollywood\u2019s Sokal hoax?","post_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/01\/is-the-campaign-to-set-roman-polanski-free-hollywoods-sokal-hoax\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/feed\/","author":"mybloglogeb6bfc4c433f4c617827","date":"2009-09-30 21:22:27","summary":"The Sokal hoax, for those of you unfamiliar, a stunt where the professor of physics Alan Sokal, in response to growing dismay over misuses and abuses of scientific literature, sent a fake submission “liberally salted with nonsense”, to the..."}

It was H.G. Wells that gave us that wonderful quote that goes “moral indignation is jealousy with a halo”. Being the pedant that I am, I think I’d rather say that moral indignation is envy with a halo. Jealousy implies that the...
Topics: Atheism, Bigotry, Honesty, Religion, Religious Tolerance

{"title":"Chris, here\u2019s your thread of substantiation!","post_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/01\/chris-heres-your-thread-of-substantiation\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/feed\/","author":"mybloglogeb6bfc4c433f4c617827","date":"2009-09-30 17:25:53","summary":"It was H.G. Wells that gave us that wonderful quote that goes “moral indignation is jealousy with a halo”. Being the pedant that I am, I think I’d rather say that moral indignation is envy with a halo. Jealousy implies that the..."}

I’ve had a few interesting posts sitting around in tabs on Firefox, waiting to be read or linked to for the past couple of days. Good stuff.For once, I’ll spare you the long introduction and just get on with it.In ‘Heresy, Bad Taste or..
Topics: Atheism, Evolution, Religion, Science

{"title":"A few interesting reads","post_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/26\/a-few-interesting-reads\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/feed\/","author":"mybloglogeb6bfc4c433f4c617827","date":"2009-09-26 05:17:01","summary":"I’ve had a few interesting posts sitting around in tabs on Firefox, waiting to be read or linked to for the past couple of days. Good stuff.For once, I’ll spare you the long introduction and just get on with it.In ‘Heresy, Bad Taste or.."}

Okay, I’m not one for atheist merchandising, I’m far more likely to buy a Judas Priest t-shirt, but I just have to get one of these. The University of Intelligent Design Crocoducks, indeed. (HT: AiGBusted).And if that’s not too geeky...
Topics: Geekery, Random

{"title":"Geek fare","post_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/26\/geek-fare\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/feed\/","author":"mybloglogeb6bfc4c433f4c617827","date":"2009-09-26 02:29:04","summary":"Okay, I’m not one for atheist merchandising, I’m far more likely to buy a Judas Priest t-shirt, but I just have to get one of these. The University of Intelligent Design Crocoducks, indeed. (HT: AiGBusted).And if that’s not too geeky..."}

“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing – they believe in anything.”(Émile Cammaerts – often mis-attributed to G.K. Chesterton, ‘The Laughing Prophets‘, 1937)So you can see from the...
Topics: Atheism, Epistemic Virtue, Religion

{"title":"Chesterton was not entirely wrong about atheists","post_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/22\/chesterton-was-not-entirely-wrong-about-atheists\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/thinkerspodium.wordpress.com\/feed\/","author":"mybloglogeb6bfc4c433f4c617827","date":"2009-09-21 19:05:50","summary":"“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing – they believe in anything.”(\u00c9mile Cammaerts – often mis-attributed to G.K. Chesterton, ‘The Laughing Prophets‘, 1937)So you can see from the..."}