My Internet Rants – in Blog Form
Ben Shapiro invited Dr. Debra Soh onto his show so that he can use her to attack the very legitimacy of transgender identity. He tries to present himself as being very strong on facts and logic – but this mere Read more
In a recent video, Will Witt went around Rodeo Drive talking to random non-experts and using a number of fallacies to invalidate the gender-identity of transgender children. In my latest response video, I expose some of those fallacies. Some of Read more
In part one of my four-part response to One Godless Woman’s “4 Questions for Third-Wave Feminists” I explain how the values of a secular society are important to me, and why I don’t single out just Islam for criticism. The Read more
Many people are dismissive of the very notion of Atheist spirituality even being a thing. However, aside from the lack of institutional support, there is no reason why not believing in God should in any way prevent someone from having Read more
As an Atheist, I can not embrace the term “non-believer” for myself – as doing that would validate the notion that beliefs that I do not hold count more than the beliefs that I do hold. The term “non-believer” is Read more
Some people (mostly Republicans) are already trying to portray the Democrats who oppose the death penalty as being soft on crime. But if they play their cards right, perhaps these anti-death-penalty Democrats can make the pro-death-penalty politicians regret such a Read more
A web-site called Uplift just featured an article titled The Benefits of Admitting When You Don’t Know.This article extols the virtue of intellectual humility, which is the willingness to admit (whether to yourself or others) any shortcomings or limitations to Read more
If you ask why atheists chose to believe in the less positive of two possible conclusions, you are not only ignoring the fact that how positive a conclusion has is totally irrelevant in discerning reality, but are also making the Read more
Very few Jews in Germany between the two World Wars saw the Holocaust coming. My great grandfather, however, foresaw it with grizzly detail. No – this wasn’t any Gift of Prophecy, and it wasn’t Extrasensory Perception. Rather, it was that Read more
Late last year, a web-site called Divided States of Women did a really great video on the topic of confronting our unconscious biases. This is a very important issue in Algorithmic Rationalism and is key to improving our level of Read more
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