3+ week, 4+ day ago   (113+ words) And what is a “coherent” memory anyway? Repressed-memory clinicians rarely pause to consider how suggestion, influence, and popular beliefs help determine how those fragments are “woven” together, leading a patient to conclude “obviously I must have been abused.” It’s the…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (74+ words) A solution to my symptoms, plus freedom from my parents? A teen dream. The ensuing exhilaration suppressed any lingering doubts … for a while. Think a friend would enjoy this? Send it their way! Become a paid member of Skeptic to…...

3+ mon, 18+ hour ago   (1433+ words) A review of God: The Science, The Evidence. The Dawn of a Revolution by Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies. Protesting too much, elsewhere in the book the authors assert “the purpose of this book is not to militate for a…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (179+ words) A warning before we start: there is no flattering way to read this list. I am implicated in every item on it. So are you. You are not the exception. Neither am I. But the effort to catch yourself—to ask,…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1223+ words) About a month ago, a woman in Egypt was harassed on a public bus (she will go unnamed to protect what privacy and dignity she still has left). She recorded the man who was targeting her, and when she confronted…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (381+ words) Think for yourself—and dress like it too. 🧢👕 New merch at shop.skeptic.com The validity of this dramatic testimony is somewhat undone by Elsie’s statement that she thought her husband was dead and that he was then “a little…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (470+ words) I have long argued that free will, as understood by most people, is simply an illusion, and I recently criticized Shermer’s view that it is not. In response, Shermer says I’m mistaken, but concludes that the issue of free will…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago   (369+ words) Think for yourself—and dress like it too. 🧢👕 New merch at shop.skeptic.com Do any of these statements resonate? Make you angry? Do some not even merit a response? I can’t tell you exactly how I would respond to…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (148+ words) Think for yourself—and dress like it too. 🧢👕 New merch at shop.skeptic.com In this conversation with Michael Shermer, Beha makes the case that skepticism and belief aren’t enemies—and that some debates go nowhere because people are arguing…...

8+ mon, 1+ day ago   (68+ words) What if the deepest human drive isn’t happiness, survival, or even love, but the need to matter? Become a paid member of Skeptic to start commenting To explore complex issues with careful analysis and help you make sense of the…...