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Yes, praying for someone after a tragedy is not even as helpful as sharing a news article about it on social media. And that's a very low bar to fail to clear...
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Despite the constant gloom and doom, the world is actually safer, wealthier, and less violent than it's ever been in recorded history.
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When humanity tries to be at its best in the wake of a tragedy, the bowels of the internet hand out megaphones to some of its worst members.
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Cranks, quacks, and peddlers of woo would love for skeptics to tone down their criticism. In fact, they'd like us to stop it completely.
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Religious apologists sure do love their fantasies of how unbelievers will be tortured in the fires of Hell...
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Creationists and the school boards who either bow to them or are ran by them, are busy intimidating teachers into not teaching the science of evolution.
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Biologos just found out what happens when you take a factual stand against religious zealots instead of mewing about vague, aspirational niceties.
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When you don't understand how the world is changing, you can either learn more about it, or you can weave a conspiracy theory to explain it. Why do so many choose the latter?
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Comparing what America and the USSR did to their own citizens during the Cold War is a fool's errand. The USSR was objectively worse to its people.
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When you spend your days fear-mongering and creating imaginary existential threats, is it any wonder if violence breaks out as a consequence?
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Pundits are waking up to the fact that in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the youth of today is being set up for failure.
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The latest scholarly take on atheism from Conservapedia: "hur hur, u r fat..."
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In American politics, scientists have two choices: a party that actively hates them and a party that merely pays lip service to their work.
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WikiLeaks decides to give the world a peek at its books. Well, sort of. A few of them. And only kind of.
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It seems amazing how many people seem shocked and befuddled that governments viciously compete with one another on the world stage.
