If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Joe Rogan weighs in on PZ Myers.

From about 1 hour 18 mins into the following:

McCreight and her commenters' problems with the use of a phone is common with social anxiety disorder – conversations on a phone can be more difficult because there is the lack of any visual cue. Anxiety disorders can be very debilitating and distressing, but can be overcome through talk therapies...

Regarding the Skeptics conference circuit, not one of the pseudo-skeptics has been listed (so far) for speaking at the European Skeptics Congress this year. PZ Myers has expressed interest (scroll down): http://www.facebook.com/events/447661008586764/ but has yet made it to the speaker list. Likewis...

Hi Mykeru, in response to your comment ”How on earth do you get from AA having a worse success rate than spontaneous remission, to it "working for some people"?” Suppose 99% of alcoholics had a reduced probability of quitting if they attended AA, but 1% (perhaps composed of people who like a qua...

Arhgg!!! "pink" should be "pinky"

Just to respond to mutleyeng's post (regarding Russell Glasser being a total douche). If you look at The Non-Prophets 11.8 (around the 40 mins mark), Russell Glasser is defending male circumcism (or cutting off pink toes! "Maybe..."). This strikes me as total relativism on Glasser's part. http://www...

The line-up for the QED conference (UK's largest skeptic conference, qedcon.org) next year wouldn't go down well with the FfTB lot. This year it had Ophelia Benson. No-one from FfTB in 2013, but there's Dawkins, Krauss and Brooke Magnanti.

My condolencies Phil. Hope you're keeping up ok.

Hi, long time lurker here. Gotta say that my views have moved 180 degrees in the last 6 months. I was originally sympathetic to RW, but after all the harassment I've seen of people who don't tow their party line, I think that Skepchick/FTB are just a bunch of privileged quasi-liberals trying to impo...