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Paved With Good Intentions

From a NY Times article which appeared last week:

Some years ago, Dr. Robert A. Burton was the neurologist on call at a San Francisco hospital when a high-profile colleague from the oncology department asked him to perform a spinal tap on an elderly patient with advanced metastatic cancer. The patient had seemed a little fuzzy-headed that morning, and the

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Maria Walters: Not an Asshole

Maria Walters: Rational. Compassionate. Not an asshole.

Read what she has to say about hypocrisy and self-righteousness in skepticism.

For my part, I’d like to say that I know *fundamental christians* whom I judge to be good critical thinkers. Now, I am totally baffled that they are able to maintain that particular faith, but I can’t say that it is … Keep Reading…

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