Skeptigator

Since I just posted on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book Infidel I thought I would provide a link to the short film that her and Theo van Gogh created, called Submission, Part I. It is a damning commentary on muslim attitudes towards women. The video was so inflammatory that it ended up getting Theo van Gogh [...]

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Now that my work and a number of side jobs have slowed down in the last week or so I have been able to work my way through the backlog of books that I have been itching to read. My latest book was Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel.
Wow, wow, wow. I am utterly blown away about [...]

Filed under: Atheism, Politics, Religion | Tagged: ayaan hirsi ali, christopher hitchens, immigration, infidel, islam, netherlands, pim fortuyn | 2 Comments »

Great article over on grist, Please stop calling them ’skeptics’. It is the third in a series of articles specifically targeting mass media treatment of people who deny global warming (Part 1 and Part 2).
The gist of the grist story (aren’t I clever) is that calling these people global warming skeptics is actually beneficial to their [...]

Filed under: Environment | Tagged: global climate change, global warming, holocaust, james inhofe, joseph romm, michael crichton, skeptics | 2 Comments »