February 22, 2024

Driving through Jamaica, Finding Common Ground The Humanist TheHumanist.com

It’s wonderful to get away for vacation, but often the getting there and back is not as relaxing. After a prolonged day of flying and waiting on lines, I finally arrived in Jamaica. I had missed my family’s ride so instead they arranged for Demetri to pick me up for the hour-and-a-half drive from Montego […]

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Driving through Jamaica, Finding Common Ground The Humanist TheHumanist.com

It’s wonderful to get away for vacation, but often the getting there and back is not as relaxing. After a prolonged day of flying and waiting on lines, I finally arrived in Jamaica. I had missed my family’s ride so instead they arranged for Demetri to pick me up for the hour-and-a-half drive from Montego

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Driving through Jamaica, Finding Common Ground The Humanist TheHumanist.com

It’s wonderful to get away for vacation, but often the getting there and back is not as relaxing. After a prolonged day of flying and waiting on lines, I finally arrived in Jamaica. I had missed my family’s ride so instead they arranged for Demetri to pick me up for the hour-and-a-half drive from Montego

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What Would a Humanist Do: Navigating Religious Grandparents The Humanist TheHumanist.com

Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on reader questions. Because while humanists are committed to being good without a god, sometimes we need a little advice on how to pull it off. Q: My spouse and I both come from religious upbringings, but now

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Agent Swift and sinking Tuvalu: Inventing fake conspiracy theories to teach critical thinking Dave Hahn The Skeptic

On 18 June 2023, a small five-person submarine was destroyed by the combined navies of the US, UK, and Russia to protect a secret undersea mining operation. In December of 2022, agents acting on behalf of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States (the Fed) met and compelled singer Taylor Swift to embark on

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From the archives: The monstrous myth at Loch Ness Steuart Campbell The Skeptic

This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 1, Issue 3, from 1987. In 1933 the world learned of the belief that ‘a fearsome-looking monster’ had ‘for generations’ inhabited Loch Ness. In fact nearly every Highland lake (sic) was believed to be inhabited by a ‘water kelpie’, an evil spirit which lured travellers to their

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Mark McDonald, America’s Frontline Doctors, and some very troubling beliefs about autism Aaron Rabinowitz The Skeptic

In my last article, I highlighted how the UK-centred anti-vaxxer movement went from never mentioning trans people at their conference to thoroughly incorporating the moral panic around queer theory at that same conference just a year later. As is weirdly normal for the conspiracism beat, a week before the article went live someone sent me

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What Would a Humanist Do: Navigating Religious Grandparents The Humanist TheHumanist.com

Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on reader questions. Because while humanists are committed to being good without a god, sometimes we need a little advice on how to pull it off. Q: My spouse and I both come from religious upbringings, but now

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What Would a Humanist Do: Navigating Religious Grandparents The Humanist TheHumanist.com

Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on reader questions. Because while humanists are committed to being good without a god, sometimes we need a little advice on how to pull it off. Q: My spouse and I both come from religious upbringings, but now

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What Would a Humanist Do: Navigating Religious Grandparents The Humanist TheHumanist.com

Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on reader questions. Because while humanists are committed to being good without a god, sometimes we need a little advice on how to pull it off. Q: My spouse and I both come from religious upbringings, but now

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