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"The Righteous & The Woke: Purity Cults in the Struggles for Justice (with Dr. Valerie Tarico)" by @ThinkingAtheist via #spreaker spreaker.com/user/thethinkin…
Hours or even years later, the trance shatters, and your mind clears and you think, wait, what?!—And you can’t believe you actually believed it. valerietarico.com/2019/02/08…
Courageous intellectual gadflies like @BretWeinstein @HeatherEHeying and @peterboghossian shouldn't stand alone. valerietarico.com/2019/01/24…
If our intuitive sense of probabilities were better, would a tumor that disappears, or a hurricane that spares a statue of Jesus, or a lightning bolt that strikes a van fleeing from a church robbery seem so improbable as to be miraculous? Probably not. bit.ly/2QRT5Yr
In the hazy realm of possibility and probability, believers continue to mistake probable for improbable, and improbable for miraculous, and miraculous for evidence of the biblical God. valerietarico.com/2018/10/13…
Don't assume that if Ford is telling the truth then Kavanaugh is lying--or vice versa. Trauma memories get encoded very differently than drunk memories, which sometimes don't get encoded at all
Most adults have very few specific memories of high school, and those that we have are of events that were particularly significant. Unless the incident with Ford was particularly significant for him, there is no reason he should have remembered it even if he wasn't drunk.
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“I have asked you here to sound the alarm. We face a direct existential threat." motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a…
This Simple Idea is the Reactor at the Heart of the Conservative Death Star. If your head has been exploding from the effort to understand conservative priorities, read this. bit.ly/2FTm3W6
What kind of people are willing to have children shot so that they themselves can feel safer? NRA members are cowards who are willing to use children as human shields.
Read the article that so offended religious believers and literati that it was pulled from Salon: Why is the Bible So Badly Written? valerietarico.com/2018/01/28… via @wordpressdotcom
“Unlike men of science, the religious have failed to produce the miracles that would validate their claims.”
_The White Door_, Douglas Wynne
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I imagine Twitter like a massive factory where they assemble us all in the morning and go 'alright folks, today's topic is carrots, get angry about carrots.' And then we all set to work diligently, destroying the reputation of carrots with zeal.
No, Birth Control Isn't Dangerous. The Right Kind Can Boost Your Health. huffingtonpost.com/entry/no-… via @HuffPostBlog