Previously: Part 1, what DJ said Par 2, screen cap dump One thing Greta Christina did in criticizing DJ Grothe was refer back to a previous post she had written, Why “Yes, But” Is the Wrong Response to Misogyny. When I saw this post, I thought it was pretty obviously problematic, for reasons that don’t [...]
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DJ Grothe is right, part 3: “Yes, but sometimes it’s appropriate to say, ‘yes but’”
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 13, 2012
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Atheists are smart because of SEX
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 23, 2010
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Or, rather, smart people become atheists because of sex, so says a psychology today blogger (HT: WWGHA). The psychology today blogger describes this as a “silly reason,” and obviously he means to make it sound embarrassing. But it makes the most sense if you understand it in a less crude way. I grew up in [...]
Awful Guardian piece on the climate non-scandal
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 3, 2010
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Via The Volokh Conspiracy, the Guardian has a new piece which appears to show that, finally, journalists have discovered something scandalous in the hacked climate research e-mails. Except that once again, if you look closely, the situation hasn’t changed from what I described in December. A scientist was accused of fraud, but there’s no evidence [...]
Department of things you already knew
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 20, 2009
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Robin Hanson reports on the results of a study supposedly showing that “It seems men are eager to visibly help heroically and financially, and to spend on visible status symbols, mainly to seek promiscuous short-term sex!” When I first saw that a few days ago, I thought, “Oh, that’s interesting, I’ll write something about that.” [...]
How to Meet Attractive, Intelligent Atheist Women
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 8, 2009
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This was a discussion at Atheist Revolution awhile ago. Vjack treated it as a rather difficult topic: “You know, if someone were to create a blog focusing on helping heterosexual male atheists improve their chances of finding desirable atheist women, I bet it would be very successful. Of course, the author would have to know [...]