If you’ve got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs — rethinking the world isn’t an option. –PZ Myers, biology professor (b. 9 Mar 1957)
November 20, 2017
Society Like a Stew
Society is like a stew. If you don’t keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top. –
–Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
November 4, 2017
Evidence of the Bamboozle
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. –Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)
The Curious Autodidact 
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