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By Anthropologist Underground, on January 17th, 2012
Actors’ representation of American political discourse.
Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler examine major psychological currents that contribute to dysfunction in American politics in their book, Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics.
They gathered a wealth of information from the American National Election Studies data to explain the current polarized disarray of American political discourse. In particular, they
Continue reading American Political Dysfunction Explained, Sort-Of
By Sophie Hirschfeld, on January 15th, 2012
There is a strange conflict in the scientific community that revolves around some bizarre understanding of types of science and, seemingly, the scientific ego. Many people categorize some subjects of study as “hard science” and some as “soft science.” We’re talking No True Scotsman seems to have sneezed on
Continue reading Elitist science
By Kitty Mervine, on January 13th, 2012 Today I had the unusual experience of meeting up with 2 old friends I hadn’t seen in about a year. I was struck by the common bond these 2 friends had with their interaction with me. I recently posted a link to this article.
It expresses my own belief that “when the
Continue reading A Tale of Two Treatments
By Ben Radford, on October 9th, 2011 “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
–Benjamin Franklin
I was recently and publicly called a “fat hater” on Facebook by someone I know. It was in response to an article I wrote for Discovery News about a rhyming children’s book
Continue reading Hate, Bias, and Skeptical Inquiry
By Ashley F Miller, on September 28th, 2011
Jennifer Hancock, from her website
Jen Hancock was kind enough to reach out to the SheThought writers and offered me a chance to read and review her book, The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Practical Wisdom. The book is aimed at teens and young adults as a way to
Continue reading Book Review: Jen Hancock’s Humanist Approach to Happiness
By JennaMarie, on July 13th, 2011 The Amaz!ng Meeting doesn’t officially start until tomorrow with the opening slate of workshops, but skeptics and critical thinkers have already descended en masse in Vegas.
This afternoon I attended the volunteer luncheon at the hotel buffet. No, I didn’t crash it, I’m volunteering as a ticket taker for several hours tomorrow. There was an air
Continue reading Amaz!ng Sights at the TAM Pre-Show
By JennaMarie, on July 10th, 2011
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
By Josh Witten, on July 8th, 2011 Cross posted at The Finch and Pea.
I’m not even going to pretend that you care about my opinion on the Rebecca Watson/Elevator Guy/Stef McGraw debacle. If you feel that Rebecca did not have a right to feel uncomfortable or speak out about it, then you should go read Greg
Continue reading Legitimate Anxiety
By Josh Witten, on July 2nd, 2011 Richard Feynman is justifiably a hero to both scientists and Skeptics. His refusal to buckle under pressure to keep his analysis of the Challenger disaster quiet remains an iconic example of integrity and conquering institutional groupthink.
In fact, this event is so legendary that I believe it is appropriate to use it like a morality play.
Continue reading Groupthink and The Feynman Morality Play
By Hayley Stevens, on June 16th, 2011
Speaker Liz Lutgendorff
I recently traveled to the British seaside town of Blackpool to speak at a paranormal conference about being a skeptical paranormal researcher. As scary as it was to speak in front of a large crowd of those who disagree with me, the saddest thing about the whole experience for me was
Continue reading She Talks!
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