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Religion
Most Republicans Want a Christian Theocracy and Other Lessons From Reading Polling Data
This week a Public Policy Polling (PPP) poll showing that 57% of republicans in the US want to institute Christianity as a national religion has been making the rounds on social media. It’s the perfect piece of viral media: scientific proof that confirms beliefs you already hold. Everyone knows that all republican politics are just a front for instituting a Christian…
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Events
Skepchick is Coming to Chicago for Chi-Fi
You’ve probably heard of SkepchickCON where all the Skepchicks descend upon Minneapolis as part of CONvergence, but this year we’re expanding to Chicago. The weekend of March 19-22, 2015 the Skepchicks will be doing a Chicago version of SkepchickCON at Chi-Fi, Chicago’s newest geek con. A ton of your favorite writers here at Skepchick and on Skepchick Network sites like Mad…
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Anti-Science
7 Ways Anti-Vaxxers Are Worse than You Ever Could Have Imagined
I wrote the other day about how most parents that are not vaccinating are not senseless or stupid; They are just parents who have anxieties around vaccines and are not sure of whether it is the best choice for their child. Sure, some of their beliefs about vaccines may be unfounded in science, but they are trying to do what is…
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Activism
Throwback Thursday: An Evidence-Based Guide for Convincing Parents to Vaccinate
Throwback Thursday is a series we sometimes do at Skepchick wherein we re-post old Skepchick pieces that have updates, are relevant again, or that we just really want to re-share. The U.S. is currently in the midst of the worst measles outbreak in decades, likely because there are pockets in places like California where many parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children. I’ve seen a lot…
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Featured
Poe’s Law: Mississippi River Monster Edition
Back in November 2012 I went on a road trip from San Diego to Chicago. At one point I spent a full day in Memphis and while there took a ton of photos. I was taking some photos of the Mississippi river when I saw this green pipe thing sticking out of the water. I realized that from far away it sort of looked…
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Feminism
Jane the Virgin May be the Most Progressive Show on Television
It may seem unlikely that a telenovela adaptation about a 23-year-old virgin by choice who was accidentally artificially inseminated by her soon-to-be baby daddy’s gynecologist sister would be a bastion of progressive ideas, but with every new episode this show surprises me more in its adept handling of issues of culture, family and sexuality. As a quick warning, this post…
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Feminism
Fun Fact! Even Awful Women Don’t Deserve Rape Threats
TW for sexist slurs and threats of gender violence. Recently, the online discussion over the harassment of women has become a hot topic. We’ve dealt with our share of harassment here at Skepchick and we’ve stood up for others who we have seen being harassed . Sarah wrote a great piece last week about how so much of the so called “criticism” directed…
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Skepticism
Calm Down. The World Isn’t Running Out of Chocolate
A couple days ago my Facebook feed blew up with everyone sharing a Chicago Tribune article predicting a bleak future where our tongues will never again taste the dark, nutty flavors of a slowly melting chocolate bar. That’s right my friends, the world is running out of a chocolate. I know this because the Chicago Tribune says so. By January…
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