Using an incredibly clever infographic, a shoe company in Germany revealed this week that they conducted a study which found that boxes shipped to the U.S. with tape that reads “ATHEIST” were much more likely to be delayed or lost en route than packaging without the label. The company, which…
Religious people distrust the world’s estimated 500 million atheistsas much as rapists, a study found Friday in the wake of a poll that said less than half of Americans would vote for an atheist president. “Where there are religious majorities — that is, in most of the world — atheists are…
All weekend at Skepticon, books were everywhere. The book seller had books about atheism, about science, and books written by the speakers. There were books being purchased, read, carried around, and signed. But these were not the books that were the ones being most discussed, even as the speakers hawked…
So, I’m sure you saw the latest Pew report on Americans and religious knowledge. It, unsurprisingly, discovered that Americans are both really religious and profoundly ignorant, even about their own supposed faith. But the big news is that atheists score better than all other groups on the test. This, of…
Oh man, I was listening to the Skepticality podcast, and they opened by playing this news clip about the Charlotte Pop Festival donating its proceeds to the Richard Dawkins Foundation. And let me just say this video is comedy gold. It’s hard to say what was the funniest part: The…