Seems Compelling, But Is It?
This morning I happened to hear a local radio show (on WTIC 1080) by a guy named Jim Vicevich. He’s Hartford’s local version of Glenn Beck … a sanctimonious windbag full of self-righteous bellicosity....
View ArticleThe Purpose-Driven Ignoramus
Rick Warren — about whom I’ve blogged many times, the fundamentalist preacher who built a megachurch in southern California, and created the lucrative “Purpose-Driven” publishing empire — just revealed...
View ArticleYes, Facts Do Still Matter
Every once in a while I wonder if I’m the only person left on the planet who thinks that facts matter. Tonight I ran across a column by Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald which shows that I’m not, in...
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Huckabee: Gay Marriage Equals Incest
This is a tired, old argument that religionists often make against gay marriage. So perhaps it’s not really news, when a religionist like Mike Huckabee, failed presidential hopeful and former governor...
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Two Wrongs Make A Right … Or Do They?
In my experience, one of the most common fallacies that people fall into, themselves, or hear and accept from others without noticing it, is two wrongs make a right. This is in spite of the fact that...
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Pope Unleashes An Ad Hitlerum
The tactic of using a reductio ad Hitlerum — or an appeal to Hitler or the Nazis — to condemn one’s opponents and ostensibly “prove” they’re bad or wrong, is decades old. It’s not logical, of course,...
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The Real Problem With Santorum’s Rant
The blogosphere has raged over the past few days over the remarks of former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum’s comments about abortion. Naturally, he’s against it — even when the mother’s life is in...
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CBS News Throws Its Hat Into Antivax Ring
Strangely, after the antivax movement has been demonstrated to be pseudomedicine, and after a number of outlets have formally retracted their prior involvement in it, CBS News has decided to weigh in...
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University Professor Demands Congressional UFO Hearings
As though a divided, contentious Congress in a divided, contentious Washington has nothing better to do with its time than satisfy wingnuts, cranks and freaks, a University professor in Missouri thinks...
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White House Issues Extraterrestrial Denial
In a move that’s sure to enrage, rather than calm, paranoid extraterrestrial conspiracy-mongers, Universe Today reports that the White House has denied that our planet has been visited by E.T.s...
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Supreme Court Justice Loves Illogic And Fallacy
By now most of my regular readers have heard about Antonin Scalia’s New York Magazine interview. The main news out of it has been that Scalia believes Satan is a “real person.” I hadn’t commented on...
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