Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America is a funny and poignant book examining America’s obsession with positive thinking. In it Ehrenreich not only details her own experiences with the positive-thinking movement, but delves into its history and evolution.
Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution, by Iain McCalman
Those of us who believe we are familiar with Charles Darwin often think of the quiet man who went about his work with little fanfare; a man who was so gracious that when Alfred Wallace sent him a manuscript that seemed to anticipate Darwin’s own evolutionary theory, he arranged a joint reading before the Linnean Society; a man who was so retiring that he relied on Thomas Huxley to be his bulldog in debates. Darwin’s Armada will certainly shake those beliefs free from your mind.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis Review by Peter Mosier
You don’t have to spend too much on time online before you run into conspiracy theorists who claim dubious forces are manipulating the world’s financial systems. They say the system is unfairly set up to make it impossible for the average person to be successful. Believers in this conspiracy would do well to remember the adage known as Hanlon’s razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. It is the stupidity in the financial system that is documented in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short.
Review of the Whole Life Expo
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ASR Resources Department @
9:55 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine,Antivaccination,Critical Thinking,Newsletter Articles,Pseudoscience,Skepticism
Filed under: Alternative Medicine,Antivaccination,Critical Thinking,Newsletter Articles,Pseudoscience,Skepticism
On November 28, three members of ASR’s Steering Committee — David Bailey and Lisa Johnson — attended the Whole Life Expo at the Convention Centre in Toronto. The expo is billed as “Canada’s largest showcase of natural health, alternative medicine, and eco-friendly lifestyles.”
Political science, as it should be.
In the increasingly divided left-wing/right-wing world in which we live, science is still being politicized to serve the agenda of various governments. This is not only disturbing, but there is a little bit of irony involved because science is both extremely liberal and extremely conservative. In fact, it is the occupation of both ends of the spectrum that makes science work.
The news is giving me grey hairs
It’s a whack world out there, and the past couple of weeks have convinced me that organisations like Association for Science and Reason (ASR) are needed now more than ever. Let’s take a look at the events that spurred me to write this.
Being a skeptic can be tricky; who should you trust?
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shadeydave @
1:21 am |
September 15, 2010
Filed under: Critical Thinking,Newsletter Articles,Skepticism
Filed under: Critical Thinking,Newsletter Articles,Skepticism
Open your mind, you new-age freak!
Emotional Numbers
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Did you ever wish for something and have it come true, or sit on the edge of your seat with a good luck charm during a major sports event, willing the game to swing to your team’s favour, and have it actually pay off? Have you ever won the lottery (no matter how small the pay off) based on your own “lucky” set of numbers? (more…)