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Miscellanea Agnostica

http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/

Current events, culture, and philosophy, from an agnostic point of view.

• Added on: Nov 27th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: PsiCop
• Listed in: Religion Philosophy
• Tags: christianity Islam metaphysics agnosticism freethought skepticism

Recent Posts

• What’s Wrong With Journalism?

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 13:34 in media, journalism, Economy, General, skeptic, hoax, reporting, skepticism, rumor, mass media, reporters, watergate

  The (hoaxed) story of poor Rom Houben is one I’ve blogged about twice already. I’ve also blogged on various other journalistic failures in the past. While I’m not a journalist myself, and am no “media critic,” as a skept...

• More On The “Journalism FAIL”

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 11:45 in Psychology, journalism, General, hoax, reporting, skepticism, World Politics, coma, fail, vegetative state, lazy journalism, failblog

  Voices continue to weigh in on the hypercredulous reporting of the case of Rom Houben (which I blogged about already). Among them: Respectful Insolence blog Neurologica blog Pharyngula blog Boing Boing Science-Based Medicine Yet the mass media have...

• Update: Has Immaturity Killed?

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 23:07 in u.s. politics, acorn, census, homicide, us census, immaturity, michele bachmann, 2010 census, fuzzy thinking, bill sparkman, manchester ky

  A quick update on my blog entry from September about the death of US Census worker Bill Sparkman, as reported by the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader: A part-time U.S. Census worker found dead near a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but trie...

• Reborn From 23-Year Coma? Hardly!

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 22:22 in MRI, journalism, Fraud, General, hoax, belgium, World Politics, mass media, coma, swindled, fraudulent, brain injury

  By now you must have heard the story of Rom Houben, the poor man injured some 23 years ago, who — it turns out — was misdiagnosed all those years as being in a vegetative state, but who in fact was wide awake but simply unable to communic...

• War On Christmas 2009, Part 2

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 16:28 in religion, christianity, religious right, christmas, winter solstice, american family association, the gap, solstice, kwanzaa, war on christmas, hannukah, cathleen falsani

  I indicated in my blog entry on this matter a week ago, that I expected additional installments on “the War on Christmas 2009″ … and here you are, yet more bellyaching from religionists over the holiday whose history and nature they...

• Sanford’s Snafus Come Home To Roost

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 14:24 in republican, Argentina, adultery, General, South Carolina, religious right, ethics, impeachment, gop, governor, sc, mark sanford

  Mark Sanford, the moralistic crusading governor of South Carolina who this summer skipped his state — in fact, he skipped the country! — in order to visit with his Argentine mistress, may finally have to face the consequences of his sneak...

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