Richard Dawkins out? His essay for UnHerd are behind a pay wall, but here is a summary and some comments in "The Guardian".
Everyone who hates Dawkins for his "transphobia" is mocking him on YouTube for thinking that the LLM Claude is conscious (and for gender-swapping Claude to Claudia). Soon enough creationists will join the fray, just wait. Kind of a sad ending, really.
American Skeptics seem to have two dogmas when it comes to so-called false memories: Elizabeth Loftus is right, and the Satanic Panic was therefore fake. Here is a skeptic who denies the former, but affirms the latter. Which, I suppose, is interesting. The video is five years old and was posted after the New York Times wrote a critical exposé of the False Memory Foundation.
From a four year old blog post: "So for da record, I don´t do crystals or channeling, don´t await the arrival of benign space brothers to some hippie commune, nor do I do affirmations in the hope of selling off real estate at inflated prices (in the neighborhood of Boston, presumably). I don´t even wear a turban and a golden dagger, although I suppose that could be interesting pastimes, especially in the middle of a pandemic! So I don´t know, man."
Dude.
"Is Zen a form of Buddhism?" sounds like a koan, but it´s a thing, apparently. I find it funny that American Buddhists (who are usually liberal) are fighting over the One And Only True Interpretation Of The Dharma (And Then Some). Brad is perhaps less amused, but he defends the proposition that Zen actually is, ahem, Buddhism. You know, like Zen Buddhism.
Wikipedia still cites me as a source in their entry on Alexander Slepkov! Don´t ask, I no longer remember.
Thomas Sheridan is...I suppose "back in force" is the best expression. Well, let´s hope he´s wrong, cough cough cough. Note that the thumb nail shows the Met Gala?!
Thomas isn´t eating processed food anymore. Especially not chicken. You can´t guess why. Or maybe you can.
