Let Experience Be Your Guru
It’s a statement attributed to the Buddha, Siddhartha Guatama, from ages ago, but it’s not a statement worth repeating because it was made by the Buddha or because it’s ages old. The idea is that...
View ArticleStrobel’s The Case for Christ: Inconsistent Appeals to Authority
A while back a reader here suggested Lee Strobel’s book, The Case for Christ, as a compelling book — the very reason why she, a self-described highly rational patent official, turned from skepticism to...
View ArticleRight Wingers Have Anti-Skeptical Rejection Of Science
The popular media has reported the recentsurvey research of Gordon Gauchat as indicating that right wing and religious Americans are increasingly skeptical of science. Liz Goodwin of Yahoo News writes...
View ArticleLooking for the Microchip on my Arms March 23 2013… It's There! (Documentary...
Right wing and other conspiratorial websites like News With Views and Before It’s News have been sharing bold predictions about Obamacare microchips in their headlines, their Facebook posts and their...
View ArticleWhen "Many in Poll Expected Jesus' Return" Means Most Actually Didn't
Many in Poll Expected Jesus’ Return by 2050 That’s the headline offered today by the Christian Broadcasting Network. You’ll have to look at the little words below the headline to notice that the poll...
View ArticleNaveena Shine attracts attention with "Proof" of Breatharian claim. Does the...
Woman hasn’t eaten since May 3, plans to go on So reads the breathless headline of a United Press International story published on June 10, 2013. Is it true? Naveena Shine of Seattle declares in a...
View ArticleFailed Breatharian Naveena Shine shoves Standards down the Memory Hole
When Naveena Shine started out her highly publicized “experiment” to stop eating and live on light alone, she set the standards for herself. In a press release she spoke of herself in the third person,...
View ArticleAncient Skepticism And The Snake God Glycon
Present-day skeptics are fond of presenting their kind of thinking as the latest thing, a relatively new invention that was developed only with the struggle and sacrifice of freethinkers and scientists...
View ArticleDo Small Time Presidential Candidates Indicate Psychological Problems of Big...
Over the last few weeks, we at Irregular Times have been writing about some of the less well-publicized of the 2016 presidential candidates. As we’ve moved from Midge Potts to Robert Milnes to Michael...
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