Psycho Killer Not Psycho Enough
Back in June I posted a translation of a remarkable opinion piece written by two senior psychiatrists, commenting on their examination of a mentally ill man who had just committed his second murder....
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Did US Psychiatrists Really Agree That Gays Were Nuts?
Over at Respectful Insolence, a lot of people have been discussing the relationship between skepticism and scientific consensus, a topic I brought up recently. And commenter Alvaro has pointed out a...
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ICQ Gender Wars
A pretty Chinese maths teacher said hello to me on ICQ the other day, hoping to marry a Westerner. This inspired me to dig out and re-post the following entry from November 2006.For many years I have...
View ArticleUnsuccessfully Grokking Prostitution
Dear Reader DuWayne asked what I think about prostitution. By way of answer, here’s a re-run of an entry on that issue from May 2006. Two years later, I am no wiser. News reports from the German...
View ArticleSlave to Love
A much-publicised trial in Falun, Sweden is giving me a funny feeling. The man on the stand has confessed to the murder of a woman and a small girl, and is also charged with the violent rape of both...
View ArticleGenius on the Edge
I worry about of Montreal’s musical motor, pop genius Kevin Barnes. He first got records out in 1997-98, when he was an elegantly naivistic singer of sad love songs. Then he shot like a lysergic...
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Etzel Cardeña, Professor of Parapsychology at Lund
I entered into organised skepticism because of anti-science tendencies in academe. Though a member of the Swedish Skeptics since 1997 and co-editor of the society’s journal since 2002, I’ve never been...
View ArticleElusive Randomness
Computers are built to preserve information, not to be creative, and certainly not to be random. Therefore it is a problem to get a really random number into a computer when you need one. A common...
View ArticleOnly Certain Humans Ever Have Sex To Reproduce
Ed Yong’s excellent post about fruit-bat fellatio received some even better, eye-opening comments from one Russell and Frog: Russell: “Tan is falling into the fallacy that animals have sex for the...
View ArticleThoughts of Violence Past in a Peaceful City
Ferdinand Balfoort contributes a guest entry upon a recent ancestral pilgrimage to Stockholm. I gladly agreed to write something for the blog after being introduced by Martin to a book by Frans G....
View ArticleCritical Thinking Training Makes Kids Smart And Also Atheist
I’m weeks late to the party here. If you pay attention to atheist issues you’ve probably heard that a recent major meta-study* concludes that at the population level, atheists are a bit smarter than...
View ArticleYoung Autists Next Door
My house is near an LSS housing unit. Lagen om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade, “The Law of Support and Service for Certain Disabled People”, mainly caters to the needs of people with...
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