Have lunch with Richard Dawkins in Pennsylvania!

The Secular Coalition for Pennsylvania is hosting a fundraising luncheon concerning issues of church/state separation with none other than Richard Dawkins! A limited amount of tickets for this lunch go on sale tonight and will likely soon be sold out. Have an exclusive intimate luncheon conversation with Richard Dawkins and donate to the Secular Coalition […]

Negative criticism and the internet

Amanda Marcotte, a writer for Raw Story and quite a popular figure on Twitter, recently asked Storify — a public archiving service which archives public tweets — if there is a way to block a user from archiving her tweets. She further suggested that people “need to lose access” “for their own good.” I don’t believe […]

Why is WNEP News promoting religious ideology?

Jon Meyer, a WNEP 16 News anchor, has taken a story about the death of a child and added a great deal of religious ideology to it. WNEP News and John Meyer should be reporting stories and fact rather than promoting religious ideology and untestable claims. Meyer writes, A little girl so many in our […]

Where the slyme live (podcast)

Listen to the discussion here. I recently participated in a recorded discussion with two fellow Skeptic Ink Writers — Notung and Damion — and Chas Stewart. The topic of discussion was the Slymepit – an infamous forum which is critical of various bloggers, particularly a handful from Freethought Blogs and Skepchick, and figures in the online […]