Angry with some skeptics' insistence that the skeptical movement should leave religion alone, that science can say nothing about supernatural claims, PZ Myers announces his…

So there I was, talking to and having my picture taken with a well-respected leader in my profession at the national conference last week.  She is getting up there in years now, and is a treasure…

Just beginning to understand how it evolved, sleep remains one of biology's mysteries.

Just…

Why do people pretend that religion…

Hemant Mehta highlights some of the answers given to the question asked of a few writers by the New Statesman,…

Two new posts at the Secular Web this week. The first argues that the theistic God, if it…

A new study has it that the deepest point of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, is teeming with…

Doctors announced this week that a baby appears to have been…

On "paleofantasies". The misguided nostalgia for our ancient past. Diet, morality,…

Tom Rees looks into a new paper that examines what kind of a person sees…

Oliver Sacks on the fallibility of the memory.

We often focus on the right…

A Boy Scout troop changed its policy regarding the admission of gay scouts only to have the Boy Scouts of America force them to choose between keeping the policy and keeping their BSA…

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Totally lacking in any sort of self-awareness, the state government in India is considering whether to require astrologers to register with state authorities in order to separate the …

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