Sometimes ideas advocated as dangerous and subversive are just poorly thought out notions in search of better marketing.

The Discovery Institute needs a scapegoat for everything wrong with the world today. And surprise, surprise, it's always Darwin's fault.

UK musicians Pig With The Face Of A Boy put together a fantastic nod to Russian history.

Frank Swain's criticism of skeptical bloggers has some good notes, but largely misses the broader point of what skeptical blogging is all about.

WikiLeaks' stunt is unlikely to end well for informants helping to fight the Taliban and seems designed only to boost Assange's profile.

Skeptical bloggers are debating whether to out a troll whose fabrications fueled Chris Mooney's anti-atheist stories.

Turns out that one of the stories Chris Mooney used to build his case against angry atheists ruining science education for everyone was created out of thin air by a fabulist.

In sparing the feeling of religious zealots and ardent believers of junk science, we've done ourselves no favors.

While faitheists and accommodationists urge atheists to be nice to religious zealots, the most fervent believers feel no need to treat atheists and other faithful as human, much less worthy of respect.

Movements who think they can "pray away the gay demons" aren't an exclusively American phenomenon.

The Discovery Institute thinks it has JPL dead to rights for demoting a vocal creationist. But the case is a little more complicated than that...

The Catholic Church has a thousand year old history of various sexual abuses they successfully kept from the law. Their recent scandals merely reveal how they've always operated.

Somehow, instead of becoming a de facto standard, environmentally-friendly products have become an expensive, must-have accessory.

Unfortunately for those of us who'd like to remain alive and not irradiated, the ghost of Mutually Assured Destruction lives on.

What the Catholic Church allowed its priests to do to children without consequence is monstrous and inexcusable. But the priests and their amoral henchmen are trying to find excuses anyway.