UBC study explores distrust of atheists by believers

The researchers conducted a series of six studies with 350 American adults and nearly 420 university students in Canada, posing a number of hypothetical questions and scenarios to the groups. In one study, participants found a description of an untrustworthy person to be more representative of ( Read more... )

For your next health care amending trick, I would like to suggest the following ( Read more... )

Would really like to know why large religious organizations think it is right to impose their religious views on people who are not members of their group.

Assholes.

Or, cleaning out the backlog of amusing links:

Filed under L for LOLbertarian: Why we don't have moonbases. What really blows my mind is that the source of the "govt is keeping us down, man" blather is from a Girl Genius discussion board. There are no moon bases in Girl Genius. HOW DID THIS - ARGH ( Read more... )

Also saw last night an interview on the Daily Show with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. I think Maddow's show talked about them, too; I know she has mentioned the group a lot recently - there's been more attention paid to them by a variety of sources because of revelations that Gov. " ( Read more... )

In 2008, the American Life League (Catholic group whose mission you can probably guess) had some stupid protest they called "The Pill Kills Babies." ("Baby" meaning "fertilized egg that might not implant due to your hormonal contraception ( Read more... )