Saturday, October 25, 2025

Commentary worth reading

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  By Mathew Goldstein There are good secularist commentators on some topics of interest who are worth reading, listening to, or watching. I ...
Sunday, September 07, 2025

Life underground, meet the intraterrestrials

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 By Mathew Goldstein Karen Lloyd is an Associate Professor, University of Tennessee in the Department of Microbiology.    Yet her recent b...
Friday, August 29, 2025

More on transgender transitioning of minors

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  By Mathew Goldstein Too often a policy topic becomes politically polarized. There are sometimes activists representing only two sides. Is ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The comfortable, unanimous certainty of a pleasing fiction

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By a lazy Mathew Goldstein asking  DeepSeek “Write chapter 5 of Gulliver's Travels Part III to satirize the effect of DEI on science tod...
Monday, July 07, 2025

In defense of ontological naturalism

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By Mathew Goldstein Someone recently published this “story” (using the terminology of the web site) advocating for agnosticism and criticizi...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

The liberal misinformation bubble

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  By Mathew Goldstein I once believed that information dispensed from liberal sources and institutions is more accurate and reliable than th...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Detecting androgenization when it is relevant

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  By Mathew Goldstein Here is an  animated video on how sex screening in sports would work to protect female competition . This is what shou...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Who cares if Libertarian Free Will is scientifically incoherent?

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  By Mathew Goldstein This is a one year old, over one hour, Centre for Inquiry Canada YouTube video of Julien Musolino, a  cognitive scient...