The Bombay High Court has ruled that Astrology is a science and that real scientists have to accept them as their colleagues.
Record a video of yourself saying thank you to Hitchens for all his hard work over the years. In case you didn’t know, he’s dealing with a very rough disease right now. You see, Hitch has Esophageal Cancer. It is currently in Stage 4 and has metathesized to his lymph nodes. He talks about it in his Vanity Fair column and in this interview with c-span. In his latest interview he states how he loves receiving correspondence. Well short of starting a letter writing campaign and since my handwriting is terrible, we decided to do the next best thing. Michigan Skeptics has started the Thank Hitch Project. The goal of this project is to send a thank you video. This video will be made up of clips of each and every one of us saying thank you for all he’s done.
In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society. “In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.
From this year’s Austin City Limits, the only television show to spawn a music festival, Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers created an a capella gospel song for Atheists.
The idea that the United States has always been a bastion of religious freedom is reassuring—and completely false when compared with the historical record.
According to Courthouse News Service, Richard Dawkins, founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and the author of The Selfish Gene (my personal favourite) and a multitude of other books, is suing his aide for embezzlement. Josh Timonen, to whom the book “The Greatest Show on Earth” is dedicated, is alleged to [...]
Mark Twain’s autobiography is being released in it’s entirety for the first time. He had decreed that it was not to be published until 100 years after his death. He had died in 1910 at the age of 75.
Since 1996, Camp Quest in Clarksville, Ohio has been emphasizing critical thinking and the scientific method. It is a residential camp (campers sleep in cabins on site as opposed to day camps where kids go home every night) for kids of Atheists, Agnostics and Humanists. Although all children are welcome. Most of the time, the kids [...]
There has been a great debate raging within the Atheist and Skeptic groups throughout the country. Should Skepticism be considered Atheist? I think two things need to be pointed out before I begin. First: Not all Skeptics are Atheists and not all Atheists are Skeptics. Second: I am an Atheist. I make this distinction because [...]
Welcome to the Beta test of the Michigan Skeptics site! Feel free to look around. There isn’t much yet. The forum should be working though so feel free to register and say hi! I expect to have the site and group completely within a week or two. As a new group we’re also looking for [...]
