Atheists are smart because of SEX

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 [...]

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Awful Guardian piece on the climate non-scandal

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 [...]

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Department of things you already knew

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.” [...]

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How to Meet Attractive, Intelligent Atheist Women

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 [...]

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The male angst theorem; or, male whorishness and its consequences

There’s a sort of emerging conventional wisdom that men have it pretty bad in the 21st century. The success of novels like Fight Club are a sign of the times. There’s always been a market for stories of men who have fist-fights and commit random violence, but only in the 21st century do we have [...]

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