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Rationally Speaking is a blog maintained by Prof. Massimo Pigliucci, a philosopher at the City University of New York. The blog reflects the Enlightenment figure Marquis de Condorcet's idea of what a public intellectual (yes, we know, that's such a bad word) ought to be: someone who devotes himself to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them." You're welcome. Please notice that the contents of this blog can be reprinted under the standard Creative Commons license.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Massimo's picks

* European readers will now be able to get Rationally Speaking wirelessly: Amazon is releasing the international version of the Kindle!

* Find out what would happen if "alternative" medicine were allowed in the emergency room, in this hilarious sketch!

* Another comic clip, this one about homeopathy and nutritionists.

* Psychologists suggest that people are just in denial about climate change.


* The Vatican says evolution is ok, again.

* The Bible is too liberal! Let's edit it, says a group of conservatives...

* A little bit of nonsense is good for your mind.

* Conservatives are praying for key liberals, so that they will renounce their evil ways. Fat Chance.

* Clinical psychologists are apparently not that interested in science-based psychology.

* The brain processes facts and beliefs the same way, which explains a lot about why people believe so much nonsense.

* World will not end in 2012, experts say.

3 comments:

  1. Ooooooooh! I'll be able to get a Kindle!!! Hooray!, Hoorah!, Hooroo!

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  2. * Conservatives are praying for key liberals, so that they will renounce their evil ways. Fat Chance.

    Heh. As is well known that nothing fails like prayer, they should try the tried and true method of bribery instead, which does move mountains. Just look at the results of the health bill debacle a few days ago...

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  3. "* Psychologists suggest that people are just in denial about climate change.

    * One more debunking of the Shroud of Turin. Duh.

    * The Vatican says evolution is ok, again.

    * The Bible is too liberal! Let's edit it, says a group of conservatives..."


    WELL it appears that everyone is still entitled to their long list of ridiculous opinions.

    The people who are saying that the Bible is too lib, they have too much time on their hands to dream up senseless, meaningless stuff.

    Our son was in Canada and all over the US this summer. He was telling us last night at dinner that a guy climbed to the top of a huge cross in the mid of Montrael (I guess) and asked the our son and his friend to call the police for him. They wouldn't do it. Then he asked them to call the press for him. They wouldn't do that either. Eventually of course the police come and try to convince him to come down. I guess he was angry about getting ripped off somewhere?

    The 'Bible is too Lib' thing is just like that. Someone has a problem not with the Bible itself but with the Creator of the universe. They think that if they call out for attention and they happen to get it, they will be able to have things their way and on their terms and actually call the shots with the Creator of the universe.

    How foolish. As if God doesn't know that a person was just trying to get that momentary attention (gratification) just for that brief moment in time.

    He's on to us, ya know...

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