Gretchen Mullen

Yale University retains prominent attorney to defend FOIA request made by Yale student Sarah Braasch

Sarah Braasch, made unintentionally famous by the “napping while black” incident at Yale University on May 8, 2018, made an…

5 years ago

Hail Satan? Documentary is an Entertaining Civics Lesson in Separation of Church and State

Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RtJp-rhHk I found "Hail Satan?" on Hulu, and it is also streaming on various other services listed here:…

5 years ago

White Women White Womening in Action and BropenScience: How an Unintended Clash with Intersectional Feminists Led to an Outrage Mob

I frequently interact with Rutgers Professor Lee Jussim @psychrabble on Twitter. He likes to have stimulating exchanges about how we…

5 years ago

The Story of a Guitar: Steve Pryor and his Stratocaster

Photo courtesy Seth Lee Jones, Tulsa Luthier who repaired and maintained Pryor's Strat in the year's preceding Steve's death. (Note:…

5 years ago

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