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

The closest well-supported psychological issue to repressed memories is post-traumatic amnesia (PTA), iirc. This tends to set in shortly after the traumatic incident. The reason why it is highly unlikely anyone claiming recovery of repressed memories is correct, is because PTA is accompanied by a ho...

I really can't think of any lefty economics blogs though that I can read without rolling my eyes out of their sockets, but I was recently on keynesian economics research kick, trying to find out more about it. While I went into with negative preconceived notions, I was pleasantly surprised to learn...

Plus in relation to the weirdness of some questions in the political compass scale: it's possible that those questions actually do share a high enough cronbach's alpha with other items in a certain criteria to be considered a reliable measure of a seemingly unrelated political view. Statistics tend ...

I was able to achieve this score quite easily by just selecting whatever I thought a gun-toting, all-American patriot hero would choose. http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=8.12&soc=9.54 Though some of the answers I had to choose in order to be this far right and authoritarian...

I think much of the social sciences are still in the thoughtful speculation phase. Sort of like how serious astronomers would be without a telescope. Useful information can still be gathered and useful ideas created. I'm not sure what is meant by being in the 'thoughtful speculation phase'. Physici...

For me, the bottom line is that much of E.P. is dragged down by the general lousiness of social science. Theory of Mind being a good example of what's wrong with social sciences. The social sciences have a large amount of garbage that is considered data. Obviously if your data is garbage your resul...

UKIP - racist, anti-science, pro-rich, anti-regulation, uber nationalist. Just add Christianity and you've got yourselves a Tea Party.

* She rejects that transwomen with penises are women. I've always been under the impression that this was primarily an issue about trans groups demanding that those endowed with a penis should be allowed to use the women's toilets. I guess having a penis in the toilets makes some women uneasy (poss...

At least I hope they wouldn't be using alternative "ways of knowing" that involve tasting chemicals or floating tea leaves in beakers or stirring the entrails of sacrificed animals. In my youth, I correctly identified an unknown substance in a chemistry practical by tasting it. It was a far faster ...

Re: pumphead. He had stents put in. That doesn't require a hookup to a heart/lung machine, does it? I believe you are right. We can rule out a connection between heart op and insanity in Peezus then. It's just good old-fashioned craziness resulting from original personality and a life of bitterness.

Compare the PZ of now to 5 years ago and it is a different person. I know not everyone here was a fan, but for me he was a pragmatic, no-nonsense thinker who usually had something interesting to say, whether or not i agreed with it. Now, he is an embarrassment to himself - the disconnect between hi...

Didn't PZ's fellow blogger Ophelia Benson write a book focused on mocking postmodernism? The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense?

I wonder how OB is going to take Myer's new-found faith in the religion that is postmodernism.

Sort of off-topic, but did the price of PutZ's The Crappy Atheist go up? I seem to recall the ebook being $8.99 or $9.99, but now it has gone up to $10.99. Maybe the publisher is trying to recoup some of the advance they sent PutZ for his (barely) polished turd? If Amazon still sorts royalties the ...

So with SkepticDoctor PZ now supports anti-vaxers and people who get ill from wind turbines and transmission lines? Now we should listen to people and not denigrate people because they have a different reaction to events but why should this trump other evidence. PZ only supports the crazy anti-vaxx...

And some people took (or work professionally in) physics, astronomy, chemistry, or other real science and can spot wanna-be science rather easily. Yes, just ask Nerd of Redhead. NoR is clearly just operating on a different level of genius. There's no way that someone who studies real science could ...

New research reveals that highly sexualized advances from boys as young as middle school are the norm. 15 year-old boys are texting their peers for Fellate Dates I always take these reports with a grain of salt. Every couple of years there's a new panic about some fad the kids are doing, and they i...

Fair enough. Every field has its fringe elements. Even String Theory has nothing testable so far, but someone thinks it's worth pursuing. And you never know, sometimes thinking about why a marginal theory doesn't quite work tells you more than thinking about why a better one does. The thing that ge...

Fair enough. Every field has its fringe elements. Even String Theory has nothing testable so far, but someone thinks it's worth pursuing. And you never know, sometimes thinking about why a marginal theory doesn't quite work tells you more than thinking about why a better one does. The thing that ge...

To explain my own ignorance a bit, when I dumped on sociology earlier, I am a layman, and talking only about broad theories written for more or less layman consumption. I have yet to read one that didn't seem to be more of a belief system than any kind of testable theory that might be applicable to...

Rystenfenttensys wrote: Scalzi is a douche canoe of the first order. The only thing separating him from the A+ assholes is that he lacks the courage of his convictions and puts on a (relatively) more reasonable public face, and quietly bans rather than trumpeting how great he is when he does it. He'...

Sad to see a guy who used to fight creationists doing the same things they do - making up their own definitions, casting blame on everyone else, the whole nine yards. For the most part, the people who fight creationists are as ignorant and as stupid as the creationists themselves. Most of them supp...

<snip>They're the first to die. I wonder where Michael â€œRed Shirtâ€ Nugent is in all of this. He's quite silent for the last few months after he started investigating â€œthe Deep Riftâ€. I suspect he was shot from behind. http://i.imgur.com/Nvb6CIy.jpg Good question - one I've wondered about as...

So, instead of finding out whether PZ Myers posted a retraction I ended up getting mightily drunk to celebrate something. Any word on that front? Or has PZ stuck to his guns and entirely ignored the lawyer's letter?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/07/misogyny-society-abused-children-predatory? "Misogyny runs so deep in this society, it is even used against abused children As the case of a 13-year-old girl described as predatory by a judge shows, women-hating instincts are not confined to Twitt...

And I'm not seeking victim points, I'm just dumping my thoughts here. Don't worry about that, Phil. I felt the same pang (that she's without her toy) from seeing her picture. From my experience, female cats are far more likely to make their way back than toms. It's early yet. Which isn't to say I w...

So we're all boycotting Dawkins again right? I heard muslims were offended. No social justice, no peace. Take it to the streets! I think it's rather sickening how Rebecca Watson is determined to use Muslim women as tools to make digs at Richard Dawkins. She cares about them less than she accuses hi...

I agree with Trophy on this. Melody having PTSD is not unreasonable, it is not wildly unusual to develop PTSD long after the stressful event - particularly if new sources of stress have appeared. + when the word 'trauma' is used, it does not always refer to people lobbing grenades at you. http://ww...

If Hensley has been diagnosed with PTSD, I don't see a lot of reasons to not believe her. But seriously, getting PTSD from online interactions? What next, tears of rage? Shacking with rage? There's a pattern with this crowd, and the best they could do for their own benefit would be to leave the int...

Just checked, and yup I'm on the blockbot. Does anybody know how to check what level I'm on? And what was the reporter's email, I'd like to add my voice to the mix. http://www.theblockbot.com/?page_id=35 has the entire thing broken down by level. Wow. My twitter account, that I've made 11 tweets on...

A data point to add to the evo psych debate: A woman I used to give riding lessons was contacted by her long-lost daughter , who she'd given up for adoption as a baby. My client started paying for lesson for the daughter. Both mother & daughter had the same way giving a tight-lipped smile while wri...

Ape+lust wrote:There he is:

http://i.imgur.com/2INRmGT.jpg

(The name of the file is _69017815_twitterpackage2.jpg)

Not too far off from how I imagined him. He looks like his adenoidal butt trumpet voice.

I'm pretty sure that's not the guy...

Sorry, I'm at a loss here. "Behavior" means what I think it means, right? A habit? A patern of actions? Anyway, I'm sure I could find behaviors that are not cultural. And if I can't, I'll recant. Oh, wait! Drinking? That's one hell of a behavior. Eating? Yep, works too. I will be generous right now...

Myers says: Thereâ€™s no such thing as a behavior that is all cultural or all genetic. These are not discrete & separable components. I'm not sure I agree with this statement. Is pooping cultural? Peeing, then? Myers would presumably attempt to foster on you a false dichotomy by describing defecati...

Heh. It turns out the gameplay footage in Arnita Sarkeesian's videos were culled from YouTube Let's Play videos. So, she's been re-purposing TVTropes and Wikipedia articles, released only 2 videos in the year since her Kickstarter campaign (with no discernable upgrade in quality), and isn't using h...

2) I hate the blanket rejection of patriarchy that is apparently very popular by many of the denizens of the pit. It is truly ridiculous. Not sure how familiar you are with the general culture of Eastern Europe but those countries are much more patriarchal than many places in US. Countries such as ...

[youtube]6cbGmf-Rkkk[/youtube] One-minute, four-seconds in and I can see that FEMEN woman is beyond delusional and had to bail. I do admit that I did want to yell "Show me your tits" at the video, but that's in the spirit of mockery than anything serious. I watched most of it and didn't think she w...

sacha wrote:
I've known men who easily had 200+ partners.

You've known men who easily have STDs.

Does anyone else despise the majority of people on the anti-atheism+ FB group? For the most part they're about as dogmatic and idiotic as the FC(n) and FtB crowd.

Changed my signature to go back to what I'm supposed to fight against. And link to booth. Some fuckers are almost stupidier than Myers: http://intelligentreasoning.blogspot.fr/2010/03/when-weight-determines-size-exposing.html#c9206231609160977717 Wow. The odds of that being a Poe? I read some of th...

I personally don't find Wonderist's posts to be particularly annoying. Instead, I find many of them interesting. Though they might not be filled with dazzling wit, it is nice to occasionally read a post that isn't just someone telling someone else to fuck off in a humorous manner. I don't always agr...

http://i.imgur.com/H1sC7Jj.jpg http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/06/29/last-chance-for-the-soggy-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-645824 http://www.freezepage.com/1372705496DPIXLIWQUL I love how Nerd of Redhead breaks the rules to point out that somebody else is breaking the rules: There is n...

Just gonna toss this in here. It irks me when interviewers make the "hmmmmm" sound when the person being interviewed is done with a statement. "hmmmmm" is what people "say" when they aren't listening! Justin, don't do that! Other than that (and I think I only heard 1 hmmmm) Justin's interviews were...

Glad Aycenne is posting here, engaging in discussion - shows, I hope, willingness to engage with others' ideas, expand on/defend own ideas, and open-mindedness. Keep it up. She was so 'triggered' by predictable images in an utterly safe environment she skipped the second day of a relatively expensi...

I've also seen this. One example was a few days ago, when I called Cunt "touchy". The very next day, Meyers's "Spokesgay" used the phrase "touchy, touchy touchy". The problem is this could be a simple case of positive reinforcement, where once you see, hear or use a word or phrase, your brain readi...

I am twitter user @aycenne - feel I should clarify. Some shocking and traumatising images were used very early on with no warning. As a trauma survivor did not return as did not feel secure or safe. Was disappointed that someone who attended and I thought cared about women's empowerment was so flip...

Those are worth posting directly: https://twitter.com/BeccaNiRiain/status/351487358023114752 They're equivocating. When they say they're worried because they thought it was a safe place and it isn't, they know you'll think that means they are worried about some sort of assault, but they're using th...

I go away for a few days and the forum is overrun by new people! I must have missed all the excitement that caused them to join. Anything interesting gone down recently? Justin Vacula went on a Columbine style murder/suicide rampage through the Empowering Women Through Secularism conference in Dubl...

I go away for a few days and the forum is overrun by new people! I must have missed all the excitement that caused them to join. Anything interesting gone down recently?

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:Hemisphere, is that your own owl photo? Congrats if it is.

Unfortunately I didn't have the pleasure of taking this photo :( I was googling 'drunk looking owls' a year back and stumbled across it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2013/06/19/amas-obesity-as-disease-vote-should-boost-diet-drugs/ And so it begins. Let's give children poorly researched drugs that primarily act on the brain. The article mentions the new drug Belviq (aka lorcaserin) a 5-HT (serotonin for the plebs) receptor...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2013/06/19/amas-obesity-as-disease-vote-should-boost-diet-drugs/ And so it begins. Let's give children poorly researched drugs that primarily act on the brain. The article mentions the new drug Belviq (aka lorcaserin) a 5-HT (serotonin for the plebs) receptor ...

Really, really bored with this hammering with a screwdriver discussion. New topic! What do people think about the American Medical Association declaring obesity to be a disease? McEwan at Shakesville declares it "eliminationist', so are we going to see US government fat camps? On the plus side, thi...

Time to call it a night with this from the Judgy Bitch: Men throw better than women, and that canâ€™t be right. Here are fourteen ways women are â€œbetterâ€ than men to make the ladies feel superior. Too bad theyâ€™re almost all wrong. http://judgybitch.com/2013/06/17/men-throw-better-than-women-a...

http://i.imgur.com/D7F6KqI.jpg Ok, that maybe provides some evidence that Myers has a bit of a nasty or vindictive streak. But I still donâ€™t see how that justifies the contention that his previously discussed joke was either directly a case of sexism or misogyny, or that he would have considered ...

EBW wrote: It escalated after WIS2 when I had made it known that I supported Ron. My first post in the members only group prompted Melody Hensley to delete some incriminating posts she had made regarding Ron and then block me, a member of CFI and a donor. It went downhill from there. When I saw all ...

Justin, One mistake you make is you don't make clear that what you published was SURLY AMY'S BUSINESS ADDRESS. It doesn't matter if it was her home. It was listed as part of her money-making operation, published by her for that purpose. That is why the argument that people were releasing her "perso...

I'll agree with Dave Silverman that Vacula has done some stupid shit in the past. Plus I think the childish stuff should be cut out of both sides, I personally don't care for it. But I think he wildly underestimates some of the FtB bloggers and their associates in terms of their ability to perceive ...

by ApostateltsopA Â» Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:34 pm Tomokun, Seriously?! You would take food away from a starving person to placate someone who is merely hungry? I would help the hungry person to develop their sense of perspective by taking care of the starving person before I gave them anything. Expecti...

by ApostateltsopA Â» Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:17 pm Just to expand a bit on what the others have said, think of privlidge like hunger. You don't have less hungers if you have lots of food to eat. You don't have more hungers if you have not much, or no food to eat. You are simply more or less hungry. Now y...

Anyway, now we have the Rise of EU Fascism. This guy is great (people call him a racist, which is ludicrous propaganda, his main objective is just to shut down the EU). Seriously, if you've heard that UKIP are racists or the same as BNP, watch these and rethink that, he has some nerve standing up t...

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