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The Antiscience Menace

COVID-19 has claimed nearly three million lives around the world, but the virus didn’t do it alone. Peter Hotez, Baylor College professor of pediatrics and molecular virology, writes at Scientific American that responsibility for the mass death of the pandemic can be pinned on antiscience, the movement that rejects mainstream science in favor of “unproven …

Prayer and Cries of Blasphemy Where They Don’t Belong

Last week, Texas Democratic State Rep. James Talarico delivered an opening prayer to the state legislature that referenced not just God and Jesus, but all manner of deities, faiths, and even the Big Bang. This infuriated his colleague, Republican Rep. Jonathan Stickland, who said he was “disgusted such blasphemy was spoken in the chamber.” We …

Positive Signs on the Dawkins Indicator

When the next British census is published, it is expected that for the first time ever, fewer than half of Britons will describe themselves as Christian. Recent surveys already show that the religiously unaffiliated make up a slim majority of the British population. Naturally, Richard Dawkins has had an outsized role in these changes, such …

Tim Minchin Wishes Richard Dawkins a Happy 80th Birthday

Andy Thomson Wishes Richard Dawkins a Happy 80th Birthday

Maryam Namazie Wishes Richard Dawkins a Happy 80th Birthday

Todd Stiefel Wishes Richard Dawkins a Happy 80th Birthday

Stephen Fry Wishes Richard Dawkins a Happy 80th Birthday

Neil deGrasse Tyson wishes Richard Dawkins a Happy 80th Birthday

Thanks a lot, Jesus, you mythological prick

I used to believe that Jesus was my father, and on my 14th Birthday, I prayed to win the lottery and for 50 hot babes to enter my room at midnight. Jesus did not oblige with this prayer, and I was horrified. How could God forsake me in this manner? I felt a connection with …