Month: May 2019

Skepticism Applied to Academia

In an ongoing debate, Jim, The Conservative Skeptic, has done a number of posts on Skepticism and I haven’t been…

5 years ago

Can you be a skeptic without being an atheist? A reader asks questions

Illustration from Edwin D. Babbitt’s The Principles of Light and Color (1878)  A fellow Twitter user who goes by the handle JustMe…

5 years ago

Religion and Skepticism: The Outsider Test for Faith

This post is in response to The Conservative Skeptic’s “Being Skeptical: Where Does Bias Begin?”-- part of an ongoing attempt…

5 years ago

Yale University Public Statements in Reply to Sarah Braasch Incident

---------- I am excerpting some of the official messages as they relate to implications this was indeed a racially motivated…

5 years ago

Becoming a Better Skeptic: Confirmation Bias

Illustration courtesy https://www.someecards.com/ In reply to The Conservative Skeptic’s and my ongoing examination of modern skepticism--what it is, what it…

5 years ago

What is Skepticism?

Illustration: Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898) One of my fellow bloggers, the “Conservative Skeptic,” has invited…

5 years ago