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.

Templeton sends a not so subtle signal to the National Academy of Sciences that they intend to keep spreading their tentacles deeper and deeper into all public discourse about science.

Nuclear energy has to be harnessed with great care and radiation is extremely dangerous if not properly contained. But fear-mongering about both to shut down nuclear power generation is simply dishonest.

Just to answer the questions, no, I'm not interested in participating in the branding and sale of Atheism BrandTM Atheism...