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Is There a Vaccine Against Denialism?
I’m surprised the incidence of claustrophobia isn’t higher amongst scientists. Whether it’s know-it-all alternative medicine advocates, religious fanatics, or militant anti-environmentalists, science...
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What Dungeons & Dragons Tells Us About Your Brain
Allow me to be deeply geeky for a moment here: it seems Dungeons & Dragons was only half right. Those slavering, lonely sad sacks among you who are familiar with creating characters in this...
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Have the Lunatics Taken Over the Asylum? Part 1
This article was written for the superb new skeptic’s magazine site The 21st Floor, where a wealth of fascinating and humorous information can be found. Go there! It’s nice to be able to speak in the...
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Have the Lunatics Taken Over the Asylum? Part 2
The second part of my DSM5 article for The 21st Floor. Part 2: Post-Traumatic Stress… Disorder? Everyone knows about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Surprisingly for something so widely-known, it’s...
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Have the Lunatics Taken Over the Asylum? Part 3
The, er, dramatic conclusion to my DSM5 series for The 21st Floor. Part 3: The medicalisation of rape? (with apologies) The DSM-IV makes an interesting definitional decision which may seem a bit...
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Game Over
Let’s not get off on the wrong foot, here: technology is great. I for one simply love flushing toilets, 24-hour rolling news, and spray-on condoms. But despite the near-unimaginable number of problems...
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Oh, Behe-ave!
The Behe-ast awakens. A Behe-moth of the Intelligent Design movement. Beep Behe-ep – move over, Darwin! You’re nothing more than an old has-Behe-en. And so on. As you no doubt already know, Glasgow has...
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Irrelevant Design
This was posted ages ago at The 21st Floor, but for completeness I’m going to put it here too. Don’t get your flagellum in a knot, but here’s another post about creationism. As promised in a previous...
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Evidence-based Masturbation (or, The Science of Porn)
This is the blog version of a talk I gave on August 13, 2011, at Skeptics on the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. ‘Porn’, to quote journalism professor and anti-pornography activist Robert Jensen,...
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Fundamentalism, Spirituality, and IQ
Why are some people religious? Putting aside arguments over whether the claims of particular religions have factual validity or not (up-front declaration: I’m an atheist), the existence of wildly...
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