Social Justice

The Silver Bullet. The Magic Pill. The Cure For What Ails Ya. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a miracle...

This whole fuss just reinforced my original belief that beauty pageants should just be abolished in the first place.

As the president of Rationalist International, Sanal Edamaruku has made a name for himself among skeptic's circles by debunking the mysticism surrounding India's so-called Holy Men. But while his efforts are admirable, and his exposes a never-ending source of lols (at the fakir's expense, that is), he's run into a bit of trouble.

In this part, we are going to move away from the tedium of proving everything with truth tables, going towards handy rules of inference. Think of these as shortcuts when trying to find out if someone’s statements make sense.

The purpose of this two-part primer is to introduce you, the reader, into the wonderfully complicated and interesting world of logic, the language which every internet intellectual claims to know so much about.

Hey Jesus, did you hear about that photo of a certain Maike Domingo, of a girl in shorts who posed in a sexy-ish manner on the cross?

At some point you've probably read an article somewhere where priests or religious people ask you to pray for a certain...

 “But It’ s The Solar System!” In keeping with the spirit of Year of the Solar System, I am going to write...

With the advent of neuroscience, it has become increasingly more difficult to defend free will.