Skepticism
Skepchick Quickies, 4.7
- Small children who cling to their mothers more than others may do so because of their genes.
- Women face bias worldwide – A new UN report claims that women are discriminated against in almost every country around the world.
- Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, the documentary about the Dover trials, has won a Peabody Award.
- Turns out drinking more water won’t necessarily make you healthier.
- Richard Dawkins is now a D & D character.
Dawkins in D&D! Break out the polyhedrons! Time to show some elves the power of natural selection.
Apologies, I went geek there for a moment.
On the bright side, now fundamentalist Christians can condemn roleplaying for it’s satanic and atheistic influence all at the same time.
What about Dawkins’ +3 Cloak of Movie Premiere Invisibility? Tut.
I interviewed Christina Barr, the scientist on the study about attachment anxiety and alcoholism, for my parenting blog- skepticdad.wordpress.com.
Colin
Colin – thanks for the link! I didn’t realize there was this community of skeptic parents out there. Nice to know. :)
Actually, I find parenting promotes skepticism. One daughter points at the other and says “She did it” or “She started it” and I need to start examining the empirical evidence. We just need to find a way for parents in the larger population to generalize that response.
“Special Abilities: Spell Resistance Infinite (because magic is not real).”
*snicker* I love it! I wonder if that character can rewrite all the scrolls and spellbooks he finds as “The God Delusion” and “How We Believe” and “Why I Am Not a Christian”, and then sell them for gold. I mean, that would really suck if all those artifacts were worthless just because he didn’t believe in them …