The Lippard Blog

In the March 21st, 2021 Washington Post story "The rioter next door: How the Dallas suburbs spawned domestic extremists," Annie ...

In his recent talk at the American Atheist convention on skepticism and atheism , Matt Dillahunty states (at about five minutes in) that ske...

My talk from January 19, 2013 to the National Capitol Area Skeptics is now online! Thanks very much to the NCAS for professionally recordi...

Now on YouTube, "In God We Teach," a documentary about Matt LaClair's exposure of his U.S. History teacher's proselytizat...

I recently had a few opportunities on a plane to catch up on some reading and podcasts.  A few of the more interesting things I came acros...

The title of this post is the title of my multi-book review article in the current issue of Skeptic magazine , which is primarily about las...

A few prominent skeptics have been arguing that science and medicine should rely upon Bayesian epistemology.  Massimo Pigliucci, in his book...

Here's a famous photograph of pulp fiction author and Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard holding a tomato plant connected to an E-Meter....

Chris Mooney has a very interesting interview with anthropologist Scott Atran on the Point of Inquiry podcast , in which Atran argues that t...

Jeff Hawkins was a Scientologist and member of the Sea Org from 1967 to 2005.  He was responsible for 1980s marketing campaigns that brought...

A group of Tucson atheists and skeptics have started the Desert Air podcast , available via iTunes.  Three episodes available so far.

Below these two videos is a post I made (perhaps to the Kate Bush fans' "love-hounds" mailing list, I don't recall) back ...

The assets of Premise Media, including rights to "Expelled," are going up for auction.  The Talk Origins Foundation plans to bid f...

Premise Media Holdings LP is in bankruptcy, and its assets are going up for auction online between June 23 and 28 .  Those assets include t...

On May 22, 2011, we will either see that many Christians have disappeared and we've been left behind, or that the claims of billboards l...

After witnessing the despicable pseudo-historian David Barton on "The Daily Show," inadequately rebutted by Jon Stewart, author Ch...

John Lynch and I have co-authored a review of the Creation Ministries International film on Darwin which will be appearing in vol. 30 of Rep...

Former Arizona state legislator Pamela Gorman, or someone claiming to be her, took issue with the following passage in her Wikipedia entry :...

In James Dobson's 1978 book, The Strong-Willed Child , he writes about using a belt to beat his dachshund into submission : Please don&...

Former Arizona State Representative Pamela Gorman, whose promo video proudly proclaims her to be a gun-toting Bible thumper, spent some of ...