Are Atheists More Compassionate or Prosocial Than Highly Religious People?

May 4, 2012, at 1:19 am

I hope I grabbed your attention with that title, but do not expect to find the answer to that question here. What I am going to discuss today is a study that many people seem to think answers that question, but it doesn’t. As I noted in my last post, the study I’ll be discussing […]

Take Back Skepticism, Part III: The Dunning-Kruger Effect

August 6, 2011, at 11:32 pm

First, if you have not read Parts I and II, please read them now. The most important parts of those posts are: Arguments over scope and the conflation of atheism and skepticism have reached a fever pitch, as have arguments over tone. I will talk about some of this, but I will not attempt to […]

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