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Physicist Victor Stenger has died at age 79

As reported by Hemant Mehta over at The Friendly Atheist, Victor Stenger has passed away. I am very saddened by this news as Stenger played a major role in my atheist activism, along with the works of Dawkins, Hitchens and others, Stenger’s God: The Failed Hypothesis shaped my arguments and made me the writer I [Read More...]

Neil deGrasse Tyson on liberal science denial and GMOs

Science denial is a major epidemic in the US, public policy is suffering while the Republican Party refuses to accept climate change, religious groups are fighting to inject creationism into the classroom all the while the countries scientific literacy falls behind the rest of the industrialized world.

Ken Ham believes gender identity laws attack religious freedom

Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis is ranting on his blog today about “gender identity” and it’s imaginary threat to religious freedom.

Rich white millionaire Bill O’Reilly wants you to know white privilege is a lie (video)

Bill O’Reilly wants you to know that white privilege is a lie, telling his viewers: TalkingPoints does not, does not believe in white privilege. However, there is no question that African-Americans have a much harder time succeeding in our society than whites do. [...] American children must learn not only academics but also civil behavior, [Read More...]

Playboy’s guide to cat-calling women

That's right, Playboy magazine has issued a guide to help men figure out if they should cat-call a women.

Watching couples taser each other may be funnier than it should be (video)

Photographer Patrick Hall has a new photo series called The Taser Photoshoot in which couples, one of them being topless taser each other in what ends up being a hilarious photoshoot. According to a description on Salonthe photoshoot is exactly as it sounds: A series of photographs and slow-motion shots of people’s faces as they’re [Read More...]

You can probably go ahead and give up that gluten-free diet (video)

This video is great and very informative about the current craze to be gluten-free and new studies that’s how there is no need to avoid gluten unless you actually have celiac disease.

Ken Ham thinks he thinks he has found 10 evolutionary myths and he is wrong

Answers in Genesis are an endless provider of material for this blog it seems, as they have now recently posted their Top Ten: Myths about Evolution, and as you can imagine it is a beautiful fabrication of straw men and make believe.They lack even the most fundamental understanding of not only science and the scientific method, but for people whom claim to study this stuff everyday, they have less than a middle school understanding of evolution.

9-year-old girl accidently kills shooting instructor with an Uzi

Waiting patiently for the National Rifle Association to inform me on how to react to a good girl with a gun after a 9-year old girl in Arizona shot and killed her shooting instructor with an Uzi. What parent and or instructor ever thought this was a good idea? Now a young child is scarred [Read More...]

Hollywood d-list celebrity Rob Schneider claims to have proof of CDC vaccine cover-up

The forgotten actor Rob Schneider, who doubles as an anti-vaccination lunatic claims he has proof vaccines cause autism and that there is a massive CDC cover up involved.Writing to the Governor of California, Jerry Brown’s office, addressed to deputy legislative secretary Lark Park, Schneider claimed he felt compelled to share with the governor his proof.