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This week I’ll be attending The Amaz!ng Meeting 9 (TAM9) in Las Vegas, Nevada, along with many of my SheThought co-writers. TAM9 is the annual conference of The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) that brings together skeptics and critical thinkers for several days of talks, panels and myriad activities. Each year Continue reading SheThought Happens in Vegas I think a common complaint of many skeptics is the difficulty in getting anyone to “change their mind”. It seems that even with careful and clear explanations, many non-critical thinkers insist on clinging to their unfounded, and often irrational, beliefs. I have heard “Why bother even being nice. I just make fun of anyone that believes Continue reading Changing Minds Boobquake. The largest natural disaster to shake the willies out of the internet since it was created, thus triggering the voyages of the Star Trek, Jen McCreight. In her voyages, though, she’s found that people like to discuss boobs and they like boobquake because it gives them the opportunity to discuss boobs. This was all Continue reading The Quake Heard ‘Round the Internet, and Her Chest Jack is Darwin's homeboy! Help us raise $2,000 to bring Young Australian Skeptic Jack Scanlan to the world’s premiere skeptical gathering, The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, this July! Why Jack? Although he is only 19 years old, Jack is a tireless skeptical activist who has devoted his free time to debating proponents of Continue reading And A Trumpet Shall Lead Them!
Continue reading Two Women of Dover: Taking Action for What Matters Image taken from the University of Illini Secular Student Alliance A few weeks ago, a friend of mine, student at Mississippi State University, participated in the ‘ask an atheist day’ event on the campus. This event was created by the Illini secular student alliance and is going to be organized annually by the secular student Continue reading I survived ‘Ask an atheist day’ and I didn’t even get a stupid T-shirt! I am very excited to link to an article by Granite State Skeptic Dale Roy, a new voice in skepticism!! She has clearly been thinking about the issue of feminism, skepticism, and sexism a lot, and has some very interesting points to make. I have been pushed! Pushed to write my thoughts on feminism. For Continue reading New Voices in the Sexism in Skepticism Debates! If you can spare a dollar, a few bucks, whatever, please help out this really fantastic cause! It’s so good, I’m doing a 5K for it. And I hate running… (Cross-posted on NoisyAstronomer.com) So, this all started when one of my fellow grad students came into my office yesterday saying, “Hey! There is free ice cream Continue reading Urgent! You can help Kids with Autism A version of this article originally appeared at Does This Make Sense. “There are certain points when debating with someone where you sort-of have to walk away. [...] ‘cause you’ll just basically end up getting a concussion.” We’ve all been there. Someone we know, perhaps a relative, is nattering on about something Continue reading When Corrections Fail If you haven’t seen my other posts on abuse, please look here and here. It is difficult to convey to those on the outside of an abusive relationship how very difficult it is to escape. One major reason why it is difficult to escape is because of all the decisions that have to be Continue reading Making Choices to Save Your Life |
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