Paths

The Way of the Soul

KEYWORDS: agnotology; antiscience; anti-think tanks; atheism; belief; cognitive dissonance; confusionism; corporate denial; counterknowledge; denialism; disinformation; evolutionism; ideological pathology; intellectual deceit; misology; objectivism; oncomeme; policy perversion; preposterism; pseudoscience; pseudoskepticism; secularism; secular humanism; skepticism

Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

Philip Pullman

List of Contents
Dark Powers: The Pathology of Belief and Persuasion Hate and Violence Political Extremism and Terrorism Religious Extremism and Fundamentalism Pseudoscience: Content and Critique Beams of Light: Religion Myth and Mythology Christianity Islam Religious Studies and Theology Ecumenism and Interfaith Dialogue

Dark Powers: The Pathology of Belief and Persuasion

Hate and Violence
Political Extremism and Terrorism
Religious Extremism and Fundamentalism
Pseudoscience: Content and Critique

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Pseudoscience: Content and Critique

Aliens and UFOs
Aliens and UFOs
Creationism: Antiscience and Pseudotheology
Confusionism: Deceit, Denial, and the Policy of Abuse
Skepticism and Related Views

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Confusionism: Deceit, Denial, and
the Policy of Abuse

Truly, my Satan, thou art but a dunce,
And dost not know the garment from the man;
Every harlot was a virgin once,
Nor can'st thou ever change Kate into Nan.

Tho' thou art worshipped by the names divine
Of Jesus and Jehovah, thou art still
The son of morn in weary night's decline,
The lost traveller's dream under the hill.

William Blake

Warning If science should die (and it should not), then this is the cause of death that an autopsy might reveal: confusionism, that is, the use of fraud and fallacy in the name of reason, but in deed for reasons of power and prestige. Of course, the denial of evidence and the practice of deceit are afflictions of humanity, as much (or more) of the mind and heart as of science alone. And evil seldom bears a label. But the links which follow exemplify some of the issues involved; a few, too few, are genuine critiques. They range from tales of malignant incompetence (the Avro Arrow), through corporate greed and the defence of the absurd (anti-think tanks, tobacco lobby), to wilful ignorance and "darkness visible" (Holocaust denial). Here, as elsewhere, the path is not always clear, and not all is as it may seem. The Old One may not be malicious, but neither is truth so easily won. Hard work may be required. And time.

Abuse of Power by Corporate and Governmental Elites
(Paul Leighton)

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

ADL Reports -- Holocaust Denial: An Online Guide

Against All Reason (ed. Ian Pitchford)

AIDS Denialism (AIDSTruth.org)

Alcohol Industry & Policy Database (Marin Institute)

Americans' Views of Political Bias in the Academy and Academic Freedom (Neil Gross & Solon Simons, American Association of University Professors, 22 May 2006) PDF

Answers to Key Questions Raised by M. Crichton in State of Fear
(Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 17 Aug 2006)

Anti-environmental myths (Jim Norton, Fairfield, California)

Anti-global heating claims - a reasonably thorough debunking (Brian Angliss, Scholars and Rogues, 23 Jul 2007)

The Anti-Kyoto Petition Project

Antitrust Policy

AOL Watch

APEC 97

APEC EduNet HOME

Arrow 2000 Project - Home Page

Arrow Canada Recovery 1998....Official Site (Andrew Hibbert et al.)

The Assault on Scientific Freedom (American Civil Liberties Union, New York, 21 Jun 2005)

Astroturf Troopers (Keith Hammond, 4 Dec 1997)

Atmosphere of Pressure: Political Interference in Federal Climate Science (Timothy Donaghy et al., Union of Concerned Scientists/Government Accountability Project, Washington, DC, Feb 2007) PDF

A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science (Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

The Avro Arrow Index (Leigh Cameron)

-- The Avro Arrow Web Ring

Avro CF-105 Arrow (Avro Canada Archive)

Axing the Forest Service: How British Columbians are losing their eyes and ears in the forest (Ben Parfitt & Kerri Gamer, Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter, Nov 2004) PDF

Bad Business and Scary Connections (inJusticeBusters)

Bad News: Noam Chomsky Archive

Bad Science (Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, London)

Bad Science, Bad Fiction (Chris Mooney, Doubt and About, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, 18 Jan 2005)

Barrett Commission: Inquiry into the Quality of Condominium Constructions (BC Ministry of Social Development and Economic Security)

-- Coalition of Leaky Condo Owners

Battlefield Earth (Bill Moyers, AlterNet EnviroHealth, 8 Dec 2004)

BCFacts.org - The BC Government's Environmental Record
(Environmental Support Centre)

BC Whistleblower

Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change (Naomi Oreskes, Science 306(5702):1686, 3 Dec 2004)

-- Classifying abstracts on global climate change (Tim Lambert, Deltoid, 30 Aug 2007)

-- Oreskes responds to Schulte (post by John Lynch, Stranger Fruit, 31 Aug 2007)

-- Klaus-Martin Schulte and scientific consensus (John Cook, Skeptical Science, 3 Sep 2007)

-- Schulte replies to Oreskes (Tim Lambert, Deltoid, 9 Sep 2007)

-- Cut and paste denialism (Mark Hoofnagle, Denialism, 9 Sep 2007)

-- Schulte vs Oreskes on consensus, Round 2 (John Cook, Skeptical Science, 9 Sep 2007)

-- Eli does a Schulte (Eli Rabett, Rabett Run, 11 Sep 2007)

-- Schulte's Analysis: Not Published; Not Going to Be (Richard Littlemore, DeSmogBlog, 20 Sep 2007)

Biodiversity and the Brownlash (Paul R. & Anne H. Ehrlich, Defenders Magazine, Fall 1996)

Big Body Heuristics: Are Corporations Really Alive?

Big Oil vs. Ethanol: The Consumer Stake in Expanding the Production of Liquid Fuels (Mark N. Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, Washington, DC, 20 Jul 2007) PDF

-- Consumer Federation's Mark Cooper discusses struggles between Big Oil, ethanol industry (video of discussion with Monica Trauzzi, OnPoint, E&ETV, 26 Jul 2007)

Bioethics and Public Policy: Conservative Dominance in the Current Landscape (Kathryn Hinsch, Women's Bioethics Project, Nov 2005) PDF

Black Friday Gateway - Terminal Avro Arrow Obsession Syndrome
(Monique MacNaughton)

Bribe Payers Index (Transparency International)

British American Tobacco Documents Archive
(University of California at San Francisco)

Bush Administration submits evasive Climate Action Report to the UN (Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch, 30 Jul 2007)

Bush Administration Tries to Pull a Fast One with Stealth Release of US Climate Action Report (Jesse Jenkins, It's Getting Hot In Here, 2 Aug 2007)

Bush-League Lysenkoism (Editorial, Scientific American 290:5:10, May 2004)

The Bush Record on the Environment
(National Resources Defense Council)

Butterflies and Wheels (ed. Ophelia Benson & Jeremy Stangroom)

Buying Influence, Selling Death: How Big Tobacco's Campaign Contributions Harm Public Health (Common Cause, 14 Mar 2001)

Buying a Star: The Facts (Kevin D. Conod, sci.astro FAQ)

Canadian Tobacco Companies: Crimes Against Humanity
(R. Jordan)

Can I Buy a Star? (Bill McClain et al.)

Casting Doubt and Undermining Action (Sharon Beder, Pacific Ecologist 1:42-9, Mar 2002)

The Cato Institute: Public Policy Analysis, Limited Government, Free Markets

The CBC Avro Arrow Home Page

CEI Global Warming Documents (Competitive Enterprise Institute)

The Center for Environmental Education Research
(dir. Michael Sanera, CEI)

Center for Health, Environment and Justice Home Page

Center for Investigative Reporting (Berkeley, California)

The Center for Public Integrity (Charles Lewis et al., Washington, D.C.)

The Center for Responsive Politics (Opensecrets.org)

Change in Nicotine Yields 1998-2004 (Lois Keithly et al., Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program, 29 Aug 2006) PDF

Chemical Industry Archives (Environmental Working Group)

Chicago Pile 1 Pioneers

Crichton's Thriller State of Fear: Separating Fact from Fiction
(Union of Concerned Scientists, 8 Nov 2005)

The Cigarette Papers (Stanton A. Glantz et al.)

Clash Over Stem Cell Research Heats Up (Rick Weiss, Washington Post, 15 Jul 2006)

Climate Change | The Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Climate Change Central (Ralph Klein et al., Alberta)

Climate Change Denial (blog by George Marshall, Climate Outreach & Information Network, Oxford)

Climate change: A guide to the information and disinformation (Society of Environmental Journalists)

The Climate Change Lobby - A Center for Public Integrity Investigation (Charles Lewis et al., Washington, D.C.)

Climate Change Preps for Its Scopes Trial: State Legislatures Take Up the Assault on Science (Joshua Rosenau, Science Progress, 26 Feb 2010)

Climate Change Reconsidered (S. Fred Singer & Craig Idso et al., Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, Jun 2009)

-- Fred Singer (Jim Hoggan et al., DeSmogBlog Project)

-- Heartland Institute (Jim Hoggan et al., DeSmogBlog Project)

-- Climate Policy -- From Rio to Kyoto: A Political Issue for 2000 - and Beyond (S. Fred Singer, Hoover Institution)

-- Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate (S. Fred Singer, Science and Environmental Policy Project, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, 20 Feb 2008) PDF

-- Not the IPCC ("NIPCC") Report (Michael Mann & Gavin Schmidt, RealClimate, 28 Nov 2008)

-- Three Full-Page Whoppers from the Heartland Institute (Part One) (Mitchell Anderson, DeSmogBlog, 16 Jun 2009)

-- Three Full-Page Whoppers from the Heartland Institute (Part Two) (Mitchell Anderson, DeSmogBlog, 16 Jun 2009)

Climate change special: State of denial (Fred Pearce, New Scientist, 4 Nov 2006)

Climate Change Testimony Was Edited by White House (Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 25 Oct 2007)

-- White House 'eviscerated' Centers for Disease Control testimony on climate change health impacts (Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch, 23 Oct 2007)

-- The censored testimony of CDC Director Julie Gerberding (Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch, 24 Oct 2007)

-- Climate and Health, and Politics Too (Andrew C. Revkin, Dot Earth, 24 Oct 2007)

-- They're still at it. White House redacts (rhymes with whacks) CDC boss's testimony on climate change, disease. (Knight Science Journalism Tracker, 24 Oct 2007)

-- Full Version of White House "Edited" CDC Climate Report - with highlights! (Kevin Grandia, DeSmogBlog, 25 Oct 2007)

-- Bush Adviser Weighs In on Climate and Health (Andrew C. Revkin, Dot Earth, 26 Oct 2007)

-- The Heat is On: Editing of CDC Testimony Backfires (Michael Stebbins, Science Progress, 26 Oct 2007)

-- John Marburger Does it Again (Chris C. Mooney, The Intersection, 27 Oct 2007)

-- Climate Science Watch in the News on Controversy over CDC Congressional Testimony (Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch, 27 Oct 2007)

Climate Change Skeptics (David Suzuki Foundation)

Climate chaos: Bush's climate of fear (Hilary Andersson, Panorama, BBC, 1 Jun 2006)

Climate expert [Michael Mann] in the eye of an integrity storm (Faye Flam, Philadelphia Inquirer, 9 Jan 2010)

The Climategate Chronicle (Axel Bojanowski, Spiegel Online, 14 May 2010)

ClimatePolicy (American Meteorological Society)

Climate Progress: An Insider's View of Climate Science, Politics and Solutions (blog ed. Joseph Romm, Center for American Progress Action Fund)

Climate Science Watch (Rick Piltz et al.)

Climate Skeptics Covered in The Deniers by Lawrence Solomon (Jim Prall, University of Toronto)

ClimateSpin (blog by Robert Jacob)

Climatic Confusion and Corporate Collusion: Hijacking the Greenhouse Debate (Sharon Beder, The Ecologist, Mar-Apr 1999)

CNEWS: APEC Summit

CNN Gets Blitzed by Michael Moore (YouTube, 9 Jul 2007)

-- Michael Moore vs Wolf Blitzer - Round II (YouTube, 10 Jul 2007)

Commercial Alert

Committee Holds Hearing on Political Influence on Government Climate Change Scientists (Henry A. Waxman et al., Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United States House of Representatives, 30 Jan 2007)

-- Testimony of Rick Pilz (Director, Climate Science Watch) PDF

-- House and Senate committee hearings (RealClimate, 30 Jan 2007)

Committee on Commerce Tobacco Documents
(U.S. House of Representatives)

Committee on Science (Democratic Caucus, U.S. House of Representatives)

The Competitive Enterprise Institute

Compounding Conservative Failure: Hurricane Katrina Two Years Later (Robert Gerson & Alex Carter, Campaign for America's Future, 27 Aug 2007) PDF

Concentration Camps, Medical Experiments in (Eugene Aroneanu)

Conference kerfuffle hits scientists (Alla Katsnelson, The Scientist, 19 Aug 2009)

-- Another fake conference? (Bob Grant, The Scientist, 24 Nov 2009)

Cooling Climate 'consensus' of 1970s Never Was (Sid Perkins, Science News 174:9:5, 25 Oct 2008)

Corporate Accountability Project

The Corporate Assault on Democracy (Sharon Beder, Australian Rationalist 52:4-11, 2000)

The Corporate Carnival Unveiled: Investigative Research and Analysis
(Adrian du Plessis)

Corporate Consulting for the 21st Century

Corporate Death Penalty

Corporate Europe Observatory

Corporate Influence (Ozone Action)

The Corporate Planet (Corporate Watch)

Corporate Predators (Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman)

The Corporate Strategy (Ed Finn, The CCPA Monitor, Sep 1996)

Corporations & Democracy Program (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund)

Correcting myths from Steven Milloy (Jim Norton)

Court Rules Against Bush Administration in Global Warming Case: Federal Judge Orders Production of Suppressed Scientific Reports on Global Warming Impacts (Press Release, Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, 21 Aug 2007)

-- Court Rules that Bush Admin. Unlawfully failed to produce Scientific Assessment of Global Change (posting from Climate Science Watch, 22 Aug 2007)

-- AP, SF Chronicle, etc: Federal judge says White House is illegally foot-dragging on global warming reports (Knight Science Journalism Tracker, 23 Aug 2007)

CovertAction Quarterly on the Web

CREW: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(Washington, DC)

CREW Posts Council on Environmental Quality documents relating to climate change (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, 29 Dec 2006)

CSEC Home Page - World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Cultural Terrorist Agency

Curbing the Epidemic: Government and the Economics of Tobacco Control (World Bank, 1999)

Curveball (Stephen Jay Gould, Review of Richard J. Herrnstein & Charles Murray, "The Bell Curve" (1994), The New Yorker, 28 Nov 1994)

Cutting Up the Safety Net: Environmental Deregulation in British Columbia (Chris Rolfe et al., West Coast Environmental Law Association, 7 Feb 2005) PDF

The Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty
(Danish Research Agency)

Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets (Leslie Kaufman, New York Times, 3 Mar 2010)

The David Healy Affair : Drug Money and Academic Freedom

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
(US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Debunking Pseudo-Scholarship: Things a journalist should know about The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg (World Resources Institute)

Deceit & Misrepresentation: Techniques of Holocaust Denial
(Nizkor Project)

Deep Climate

Deltoid (Tim Lambert)

The denial industry (George Monbiot, The Guardian, 19 Sep 2006)

Denialism (Wikipedia)

Denialism Blog (Mark & Chris Hoofnagle)

Denialists (Rev. Dr., Give Up Blog, 19 Sep 2006)

Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts (Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law, 9 Feb 2007; SSRN, 11 Feb 2007)

The Denial Machine (Bob McKeown, The Fifth Estate, CBC News, 15 Nov 2006)

Denying Science, Legislating Reality (Steven Newton, Huffington Post, 5 Mar 2010)

DeSmogBlog | Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science (Jim Hoggan et al., Vancouver, BC)

Developing a Response to Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) in British Columbia (BC Ministry of the Attorney General, 16 May 2000)

Directory of Transnational Corporations (George Draffan)

Disinfopedia (Center for Media & Democracy)

Documentary Resources on the Nazi Genocide and Its Denial
(ed. Michel Fingerhut)

Doubt Is Their Product (David Michaels, Scientific American 292:6:96-101, Jun 2005) PDF

Economics of Climate Change: Executive Summary
(Stephen J. DeCanio)

Encountering Holocaust Denial (Lin Collette, The Public Eye, Sep 1994)

Ending Corporate Governance: Revoking Our Plutocracy
(Dave Ratcliffe et al.)

Environmental Literacy Council (George C. Marshall Institute)

The Environmental Wars : The Science behind the Politics (Conference hosted by the Skeptics Society, Caltech, 2-4 Jun 2006)

EPA Libraries: Where Do They Stand Now? (Barbie E. Keiser, NewsBreaks, Information Today, 12 Feb 2007)

EPA Library (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Washington, DC)

The Eugenics Movement

Executive PayWatch (AFL-CIO)

Expert credibility in climate change (William R. L. Anderegg et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 21 Jun 2010)

-- Climate change sceptics are less 'credible' scientists, finds survey (James Dacey, Physics World, 24 Jun 2010)

Ex-Surgeon General Says White House Hushed Him (Christopher Lee, Washington Post, 11 Jul 2007)

Exxon Secrets: How ExxonMobil Funds the Climate Change Skeptics (Greenpeace, London)

Exxpose Exxon | Home (Partnership Project, Washington, DC)

The "Faculty Bias" Studies: Science or Propaganda? (John B. Lee, American Federation of Teachers, Nov 2006) PDF

Faked Moon Landings? - Apollo Hoax Discussion Web Site

Fake Martian Meteorites & NASA Martian Programs (Alex Heftman)

A Few Things Ill Considered: A layman's take on the science of Global Warming featuring a guide on How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic (Coby Beck)

The Fig and the Spade: Countering the deceptions of treasure hunters (Jerome Lynn Hall, AIA Archaeology Watch, Archaeological Institute of America, 15 Aug 2007) PDF

Focus on the Corporation: The Mokhiber-Weissman Column on Corporate Power

Follow the Money -- The Politics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(Eugene Russo, PLoS Biology 3(7):e234, 12 Jul 2005)

Fox TV and the Apollo Lunar Hoax (Phil Plait)

Fraser Institute Home Page

Friends of Science (DeSmogBlog)

Friends of Science (SourceWatch)

From Corporate Responsibility to Social Accountability
(United Church of Canada)

From Perceived Surplus to Perceived Shortage
(Ben Chan, CIHI, 5 Jun 2002)

Frontline: Hot Politics (Peter Bull et al., PBS, 24 Apr 2007)

Frontline: Smoke in the Eye (PBS, 1996)

George C. Marshall Institute

George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University
(Nick Anthis, The Scientific Activist, 6 Feb 2006)

The George Radwanski Scandal (PIPEDA on the Web)

Giving with One Hand, Taking Away with the Other: Canada's Tax System and Research and Development (Kenneth J. McKenzie, C. D. Howe Institute, Toronto, Oct 2006) PDF

Global Climate Coalition -- A Voice for Business in the Global Warming Debate

Global Exchange: Corporate Accountability

Global Trade Watch Home Page

Global Warming (Rich Zipperer, National Consumer Coalition)

Global Warming (Think Progress)

Global Warming and Climate Change Issues
(American Petroleum Institute)

Global warming controversy (SourceWatch)

The Global Warming Denial Lobby (Donald Gutstein, The Tyee, Vancouver, 2 May 2006)

Global Warming Denial Machine (ClimateScienceWatch)

Global Warming - Fact or Fiction? (Fred Singer vs Andrew Weaver, Envirospace, 15 Sep 1999)

Global Warming: The Science and the Politics
(ed. Laura Jones, Fraser Institute) - Intro PDF

Global Warming Skeptic Organizations (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Global Warming Skeptics: A Primer (Environmental Defense, New York)

The Great Medical Malpractice Hoax: NPDB Data Continue to Show Medical Liability System Produces Rational Outcomes (Seth Oldmixon et al., Public Citizen, Washington, DC, Jan 2007) PDF

Greedwatch (Centre for Social Justice)

The Greening Earth Society (Fred Palmer et al., Western Fuels Association, Inc.)

The Guildford Documents

A Habit of Lies: How Scientists Cheat (John A. Hewitt)

A Half Century Of Denial: Unit 731

The Heat Is Online (Ross Gelbspan)

The Heat is On: The Warming of the world's climate sparks a blaze of denial (Ross Gelbspan, Harper's Magazine, Dec 1995)

The Heritage Foundation (U.S.)

Hijacking Sustainable Development: A Critique of Corporate Environmentalism (Sharon Beder, Chain Reaction 81:8-10, Summer 1999/2000)

Hitting Back Against the New War on Science (Chris Mooney, The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb 2010)

Holocaust Denial on Trial: David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt (Emory University)

Homage to the Avro Arrow (R. Kyle Schmidt)

Horatio Algeranon's Anonymusing Tales (blog)

How the 'climategate' scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics' lies (Fred Pearce, The Guardian, 1 Feb 2010)

How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data (Daniele Fanelli, PLoS ONE 4(5):e5738, 29 May 2009)

How old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service won't say (PEER, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Washington, DC, 28 Dec 2006)

-- Don't Believe Everything You Read (Without a Park to Range, 3 Jan 2007)

-- Renewed concern about creationism at Grand Canyon National Park (National Center for Science Education, 4-7 Jan 2007)

-- Evolving Grand Canyon position leaves unanswered questions (PEER, 16 Jan 2007)

-- Tell PEER Enough is Enough! (Without a Park to Range, 16 Jan 2007)

How Sound Is Bush's 'Sound Science'? (Jeffrey Brainard, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 Mar 2004)

Human Radiation Experiments: Roadmap to the Project

Hutchinson vs. Proxmire (U.S. Supreme Court, 1979)

Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement (DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The Impact of Development at Canoa Ranch on the Astronomical Facilities atop Mt. Hopkins

In Denial on Climate Change (Peter Hart, FAIR, May/Jun 2007)

-- Blame the media for climate woes: analysis (Mike De Souza, CanWest News Service, 6 Aug 2007)

Industry's Hot Air (David Helvarg, MoJo Wire, 25 Nov 1997)

INFACT Homepage

Info-pollution (Jim Norton, Fairfield, California)

Inside-AOL.com

The Integrity in Science Database: Scientists' & Non-Profit Ties to Industry (Center for Science in the Public Interest)

Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Conduct (Arthur Rubenstein et al., U.S. National Research Council, 2002)

Integrity of Science (Pacific Institute, Oakland, California)

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (New York)

International Advocates for Health Freedom (John Hammell et al.)

1999 Internet Corruption Perception Index (Transparency International)

Internet Corruption Ranking - Home Page

Investor's Business Daily has as much as 100 lies on every page (Tim Lambert, Deltoid, 27 Sep 2007)

INWAT - International Network of Women Against Tobacco

IPS Official Statement on Star Naming

Irving v. Lipstadt: The Judgment (Nizkor Project)

Jeffrey Wigand - Tobacco Whistleblower

Jim Hightower

Join Together Online (Boston University School of Public Health)

Julian L. Simon (Matthew Munsey)

Karl Rove, Global Warming, and Bush's Legacy (Joseph Romm, Climate Progress, 18 Sep 2007)

The Latest Smear Campaign Against Michael Mann (Mitchell Anderson, DeSmogBlog, 15 Jan 2010)

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (UCal San Francisco)

Letter to Nick Thomas, ExxonMobil (Bob Ward, The Royal Society, 4 Sep 2006) PDF

-- Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial (David Adam, The Guardian, London, 20 Sep 2006)

-- The Royal Society vs. Exxon's astroturf (Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Making Light, 20 Sep 2006)

The Leuchter Report: Index (Nizkor Project)

Lots of ink: Former surgeon general says Bushies leaned on him, hard, to toe political line and stifle science (Knight Science Journalism Tracker, 11 Jul 2007)

Love, Hate and Propaganda (six-part documentary series hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos, CBC/Radio-Canada, Mar-Apr 2010)

A Mammoth of Research (Jon Butterworth, Life and Physics, 25 Jun 2010)

-- Impromptu Simon Jenkins spoof rallies the defenders of science (Jon Butterworth, The Guardian Science Blog, 28 Jun 2010)

Mann Bites Dog: Why 'Climategate' Was Newsworthy (Mark Boslough, Skeptical Inquirer 34.2, Mar-Apr 2010)

Manipulating Public Knowledge (Sharon Beder, Metascience 7:1:132-9, 1998)

Manufacturing Uncertainty: Contested Science and the Protection of the Public's Health and Environment (David Michaels & Celeste Monforton, American Journal of Public Health, Jun 2005) PDF

Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children
(US Federal Trade Commission, 11 Sep 2000)

"Mediarology": The Role of Citizens, Journalists, and Scientists in Debunking Climate Change Myths (Stephen Schneider)

Michael Crichton's new screed (Bryan Curtis, Slate Magazine, 8 Dec 2004)

Michael Crichton's State of Confusion (RealClimate, 13 Dec 2004)

Michael Crichton's State of Fear: They Don't Call It Science Fiction for Nothing (Natural Resources Defense Council, 16 Dec 2004, updated 28 Sep 2005)

-- Novel on global warming gets some scientists burned up
(Seth Borenstein, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb 2005)

Michael Mann and 'Climategate' | RA-10 Inquiry Report: Concerning the Allegations of Research Misconduct Against Dr. Michael E. Mann (Henry C. Foley et al., Penn State, 3 Feb 2010) PDF

-- Inquiry into climate scientist moves to next phase (Penn State Live, 3 Feb 2010)

-- Melting Climategate: The Vindication of Scientist Michael Mann (Pete Altman, NRDC Switchboard, 3 Feb 2010)

-- Mann's Fate in Climategate (Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times Dot Earth Blog, 3 Feb 2010)

-- Climate Skeptics Try To Spin Penn State Exoneration of Dr. Michael Mann Into "Whitewash" (Brendan Demelle, DeSmogBlog, 3 Feb 1010)

-- Michael Mann Exonerated (Eli Rabbett, Rabett Run, 3 Feb 2010)

Miep Gies (1909-2010)

Minister [Rona Ambrose] stops book talk by Environment Canada scientist [Mark Tushingham] (CBC Arts, 13 Apr 2006)

Mis-information: David Irving, Revisionist Historian and Truth Sayer
(Bent Soup)

Misleading by Petition: Just What is the Consensus on Global Warming? (Gary J. Whittenberger, eSkeptic, 12 Nov 2008)

MoJo News Wire Archive

The Moon Landings Were NOT Faked (Jim Scotti)

Morons.org - Threatening the American Family (Nick Johnson)

Mr. Cool: Nurturing doubt about climate changes is big business (Charles Montgomery, Globe and Mail,Toronto, 12 Aug 2006)

Multinational Monitor On-Line

The Myth of Mental Disorder: Transsubstantive Behavior and Taxometric Psychiatry (Steven K. Erickson, Social Science Research Network, 2 Nov 2006)

Myths about Global Warming (Union of Concerned Scientists)

NASA Budget Situation (AAS Public Policy Information)

NASA's Moon Hoax: The Apollo Moon Landings

National Association of Scholars: Home Page (US)

National Rifle Association Information (Violence Policy Center)

NCPA - Global Warming Hotline (US National Center for Policy Analysis)

NCSE encourages federal scientific integrity (National Center for Science Education, 13 May 2009)

The New Rules Project (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)

Nieman Watchdog: Questions the press should ask (ed. Barry Sussman, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University)

Nike FACTs and FAQs (Eric Lormand)

Nizkor: A Response to Holocaust Denial (Kenneth McVay)

-- German Mirror

The Noam Chomsky Archive (Tom Lane, ZNet)

Noam Chomsky on the Web

Noam Chomsky Page

Noam Chomsky References (Patrick Jennings)

The Noam Chomsky Website (Chomsky.info)

NOVA Online | Holocaust on Trial (PBS, Oct 2000)

Oil, Industry, and Government: The American Petroleum Institute

Open Access to Science Under Attack (David Biello, Scientific American, 26 Jan 2007)

Open letter: Climate change and the integrity of science (US National Academy of Sciences, The Guardian, 6 May 2010)

-- Leading scientists condemn 'political assaults' on climate researchers (Celia Cole, The Guardian, 6 May 2010)

The Physics That We Know: A Conversation With Gavin Schmidt (Edge, 29 Jun 2009)

Plagiarism? Conspiracies? Felonies? Behind the Wegman Report and Decades of Related Anti-Science Attacks (John R. Mashey, 8 Feb 2010) PDF

-- Plagiarism? Conspiracies? Felonies? Breaking out the Wegman File (Richard Littlemore, DeSmogBlog, 7 Feb 2010)

POCLAD - Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy

Political Interference in Science (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Politicization Of Science In The United States (Resolution, Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, Union for Reform Judaism 68th General Assembly, Nov 2005)

Politics & Science - Investigating the State of Science Under the [George W.] Bush Administration (Henry A. Waxman, Committee on Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives)

The politics of plague - The Early Years of the AIDS Crisis (CBC, The Journal, 6 Jul 1983)

Preeminent Scientists Protest Bush Administration's Misuse of Science (Union of Concerned Scientists, 18 Feb 2004)

Pro-Gun Special Interests (Violence Policy Center)

Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journals (White Paper, Council of Science Editors, Reston, Virginia)

PR Watch: Public Interest Reporting on the PR/Public Affairs Industry
(Center for Media & Democracy)

Public Good Project

Public Information Network (George Draffan)

Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media (Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, 9 Jul 2009) PDF

-- Overview

-- Scientific achievements less prominent than a decade ago (EurkAlert, 9 Jul 2009)

-- Commentary (AAAS, 9 Jul 2009) PDF

The Queen Elizabeth II Observatory Project: The Rise and Fall of the Mt. Kobau Observatory Project (Jim Failes)

The Questionable Coverage of Global Warming
(Simon Smith, Ryerson Review of Journalism, Summer 2000)

Questioning the Honesty of White House Science (Colloquy Live, mod. Jeffrey Brainard, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 Mar 2004)

RC Wiki (RealClimate)

Reason Online: Home of Reason Magazine

Reclaim Democracy! Home Page

Red Flags

Report From Yearly Kos: The Intersection of Science and Progressive Values (Chris C. Mooney, The Huffington Post, 6 Aug 2007)

Response to Skeptics of Global Warming (William W. Kellogg, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 72(4):499-511, Apr 1991) PDF

Restoring the Integrity of Science (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Revisionaries (Mariah Blake, Washington Monthly, Jan/Feb 2010)

The Science & Environmental Policy Project (S. Fred Singer et al.)

Science and Politics (PBS Now, with David Brancaccio, 22 Jul 2005)

Science Debate 2008

Science denial is on the rise (Steven Newton, Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 Dec 2009)

Science, Risk and the Media - do the front pages reflect reality? (ed. Jacqueline Cassidy, Social Market Foundation, London, 3 Mar 2006) PDF

Science, Scientism, and Anti-Science in the Age of Preposterism
(Susan Haack, Skeptical Inquirer, Nov. 1997)

Science Under Siege: The Bush Administration's Assault on Academic Freedom and Scientific Inquiry (Tania Simoncelli with Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, 20 Jun 2005)

-- PDF

Science vs. politics gets down and dirty (Dan Vergano, USA Today, 5 Aug 2007)

Scientific Fraud and the Power Structure of Science
(Brian Martin, Prometheus, Jun 1992)

Scientific Illiteracy and the Partisan Takeover of Biology
(Liza Gross, PLoS Biology 4(5):e167, 18 Apr 2006)

Scientific Integrity (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

Scientific Integrity (Barack Obama, Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, The White House, 9 Mar 2009)

Scientific Integrity (Public Employees for Environmental Reponsibility, Washington, DC)

Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science (Union of Concerned Scientists, Mar 2004)

Scientific Integrity, Presidential Memorandum on (Barack Obama, The White House, Washington, DC, 9 Mar 2009)

Scientific Integrity Program (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Scientists and Engineers for America (Mike Brown et al.)

Searching for Good Science: The Cancellation of NASA's SETI Program (Stephen J. Garber, JBIS 52(1):3-12 (Jan 1999) PDF

Sense About Science (dir. Tracey Brown, London)

Shell Controversy

SKAPP | Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy
(DefendingScience.org)

The Skeptical Environmentalist: A Case Study in the Manufacture of News (Matthew Nisbet, CSICOP, 23 Jan 2003)

Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor (SETI Institute, Are We Alone?, 8 Mar 2010)

Skepticism toward The Skeptical Environmentalist
(Scientific American Explore!, 15 Apr 2002)

-- Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty (Udvalgene Vedroerende Videnskabelig Uredelighed)

Slamming the Climate Skeptic Scam (Jim Hoggan, DeSmogBlog, 1 Dec 2005, updated)

Slashdot | The Corporate Republic

The Smoke Behind the Deniers' Fire (George Monbiot, Oxford, 19 Sep 2006)

Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science (Union of Concerned Scientists, 3 Jan 2007) PDF

-- Appendix C: Key Internal Documents (1) PDF

-- Appendix C: Key Internal Documents (2) PDF

-- Appendix C: Key Internal Documents (3) PDF

SmokeScreen: Fighting Big Tobacco and Smoking

Snow Job (Tamino, Open Mind, 30 Sep 2007)

So You Want to Buy A Star? One Planetarian's Perspective
(Jim Craig)

Sowing doubt about climate change in Stephen Harper's backyard (Sheila Pratt, The Edmonton Journal, 20 Aug 2006)

Spin Cycles, with Ira Basen (CBC News In Depth, 15 Feb 2007)

Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse (Washington, DC)

Star Naming Scam (Mueller Planetarium)

State of Tobacco Control (American Lung Association Action Network)

Stealth Closure of Principal EPA Chemical Library (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Washington, DC, 30 Oct 2006)

Stop Abuse of Power (Doron A. Tal)

Stumbling Over Data: Mistakes Fuel Climate-Warming Skeptics (David Appell, News Scan, Scientific American 301:2:19-20, Aug 2009)

Survivors of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

-- Exxon's Scientific Manipulation (Riki Ott)

Systematic Interference with Science at Interior Department Exposed (Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 30 Oct 2006)

TASSC (The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition)

Think for Yourself, a Drug Policy Reading Room on the Drug War
(Jim Rosenfield)

Thoughts from Kansas (Josh Rosenau)

Tim Ball: Wilful Disregard for the Truth (Richard Littlemore, DeSmogBlog, 30 Aug 2006, updated)

Tobacco BBS (Gene Borio)

Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organization (Report of the Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents, WHO, Jul 2000) PDF

Tobacco Control (BMJ Publishing Group, London)

Tobacco Control Archives

Tobacco Control Archives: Brown & Williamson Collection

Tobacco Control Resource Center / Tobacco Products Liability Project
(Northeastern University School of Law, Boston)

The Tobacco Industry (Tobacco Facts)

Tobacco Industry Documents: Public Access to Industry Documents (Centers for Disease Control)

Tobacco Industry Information (Jack W. Cannon)

Tobacco interests or the public interest: 20 years of industry strategies to undermine airline smoking restrictions (Peggy Lopipero & Lisa A. Bero, Tobacco Control 15(4):323-32, Aug 2006)

TobaccoResolution.com

Tobacco Wars: Tobacco Litigation News (ed. Albert Jerome)

Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report (Bill Moyers, PBS, 26 Mar 2001)

Triumph of dogma over reason
(Jeff Hecht, New Scientist Planet Science)

The Truth About Denial (Sharon Begley, Newsweek, 13 Aug 2007)

-- Resisting Change: Global Warming Deniers (Sharon Begley, Live Talk, Newsweek, 8 Aug 2007)

-- Newsweek Believes "Global Warming is a Hoax"? (Joseph Romm, Climate Progress, 5 Aug 2007)

-- The denial industry (Tim Lambert, Deltoid, 6 Aug 2007)

-- Newsweek's history of "The Denial Machine" (Robert Jacob, ClimateSpin, 11 Aug 2007)

-- How to report on science: "Its not that hard". (Robert Jacob, ClimateSpin, 13 Aug 2007)

-- Two conservative opinions on Global Warming from WaPo (Mark Hoofnagle, Denialism Blog, 16 Aug 2007)

Two Centuries of Softwood Lumber War between Canada and the United States (Les Reed, Free Trade Lumber Council, 19 Sep 2001)

UCS Examines The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg (Union of Concerned Scientists)

The UCS Sound Science Initiative (Union of Concerned Scientists)

U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy

USIA: The United States and APEC

Using Phony Science to Discredit Global Warming
(John W. Firor, Environmental Defense Newsletter, Sep 1998)

Victorian WTO Watch (Australia)

Waking to Warming (Center for Investigative Reporting, Berkeley, California)

The War Against the Greens: An Interview with David Helvarg

The War on Science: What Have We Learned? (Webcast of Chris Mooney, Cornell University Provost Lecture, with discussion mod. Ron Herring, 20 Sep 2007)

Wharton Ethics Case Studies

What's behind the State of Fear? (Jennie Bristow, Spiked, 10 Mar 2005)

When Scientists Sin (Michael Shermer, Skeptic, Scientific American 303:1:34, Jul 2010)

While Washington Slept (Mark Hertsgaard, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2006)

Who Killed the DSCOVR Project?: A DeSmogBlog exclusive investigation into NASA's DSCOVR climate station (Mitchell Anderson, DeSmogBlog, 27 Aug 2007)

-- NASA Satellite Sandal Exposed by Climate Muckrakers (Richard Graves, It's Getting Hot In Here, 28 Aug 2007)

-- Uncover DSCOVR Part 3: Digging for Answers from NASA (Mitchell Anderson, DeSmogBlog, 12 Sep 2007)

-- Deep Space Climate Observatory (Wikipedia)

Why "Revisionism" Isn't (Gord McFee)

Woo Suk Hwang (Nature Special, 11 Jan 2006)

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

WTO Watch (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy)

A Young Bush Appointee [George C. Deutsch] Resigns His Post at NASA (Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 8 Feb 2006)

See also Corporate Crime and Accountability, Political Science, Economics, Ideology and Political Belief, Hate and Violence, Critical Thinking, Global Trade Policy and Economic Security, and War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

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Skepticism and Related Views

Thinking is man's only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one's consciousness, the refusal to think-- not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

John Galt (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged)

I take all true skepticism to be the search for a quiet centre within the mind that can resist the pull of subjective opinion, mechanical logic, and authoritarian belief. Nearer to that centre of the mind, it seems that a double certainty appears -- the certainty that it is humanly possible to know reality directly and the certainty that there are infinitely higher levels of being to be served beyond and within the human frame. Thus does a form of faith arise alongside the rejection of belief.

Jacob Needleman

Abuse of Religiosity and Skeptical Studies (VL)

Abuses of Skepticism (Chris Mooney, Doubt and About, CSICOP, 5 Dec 2003)

Agnosticism / Atheism - Home Page (Austin Cline, About.com)

Alt.atheism Related

The American Atheist: A Journal of Atheist News and Thought
(American Antheists)

American Atheists (Ocean City, New Jersey)

The American Humanist Association

An Antidote to Religion (Daniel Lea)

Atony Flew, 1923-2010: Following the Argument Wherever It Leads (Kenneth Grubbs, eSkeptic, 21 Apr 2010)

Antony Flew's Deism Revisited: A Review Essay on There Is a God (2007) (Gary Habermas, Evangelical Philosophical Society, 2008)

Apes with Tools

Ariane Sherine (London)

-- Blog

Association for Skeptical Enquiry (UK)

@ Com Atheism: Resources: Links and Fun Stuff
(Richard Andrews et al., Utah Atheists)

Atheism and Intellectual Freedom (L. J. Badd)

Atheism - Suite101.com

The Atheism Web

The Atheist Alliance Web Center

Atheist Becomes Theist: Exclusive Interview with Former Atheist Antony Flew (Gary R. Habermas, Philosophia Christi, Winter 2004)

AtheistBus.ca - Canadian Atheist Bus Campaign (Freethought Association of Canada)

Atheist Bus Campaign (UK)

Atheist Foundation of Australia Home Page

AtheistNet: Atheist Contacts (Ed Gauci)

The Atheist Network (Reginald V. Finley, Sr. et al.)

The Atheist's Ammunition Home Page

The Atheist Warehouse (Dan Kely)

The Atlas Society: Celebrating the Fiction of Ayn Rand

Australian Skeptics Home Page

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Profile (BBC News, 16 May 2006)

Building Moderate Muslim Networks (Angel Rabasa et al., RAND Corporation, 26 Mar 2007) PDF

The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism

The Ayn Rand Society

Battleground God (TPM ONline)

BC Humanist Association (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Beyond Belief 2006: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival (The Science Network/Crick-Jacobs Center, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, 5-7 Nov 2006)

Beyond Demonic Memes: Why Richard Dawkins is Wrong About Religion (David Sloan Wilson, eEskeptic, 4 Jul 2007)

Bill Jefferys Goodies Page

The Brights' Net (Paul Geisert & Mynga Futrell et al.)

British Columbia Skeptics Home Page

British Humanist Association

Canadian Secular Alliance

Center for Inquiry Ontario

Center for Inquiry Transnational (Barry Karr et al., Amherst, New York)

-- CFI Forums

Center for Inquiry On Campus

Centre for Inquiry Canada (Toronto)

Christian Faith and Reason - The Online Magazine for Christian Defenders and Skeptical Seekers (ed. Michael Patrick Leahy et al., Spring Hill, Tennessee)

The Christian God, The Jewish God, or No God. A Meaningful Dialogue with Dinesh D'Souza, Christopher Hitchens, and Dennis Prager (Bat Yahm Synagogue, Newport Beach, California, 2008)

Committed to the Truth: Religion, Philosophy, and High School Debate

CompletePlanet - Directory Skepticism

Confessions of a Former Environmental Skeptic (Michael Shermer, April 2008; first pub. in a Festschrift for David Suzuki, posted to Skepticblog 9 Oct 2009)

Council for Secular Humanism (David Noelle)

-- CODESH Mirror

The Critical Mass Podcast: A Healthy Dose of Skepticism (Lloyd Macalpine etn al., Australia)

Critical Thinking (anon. blog)

CSICOP Home Page (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal)

C. S. Lewis: Science and Scientism (Henry F. Schaefer III, Ch. 7 of Science and Christianity (2003), repr. C.S. Lewis Society of California, 2007)

DangerousIdeas.net | "What's the harm?" (Rob Beeston)

Darwin and EvolveFISH Homepage

The Dawkins Delusion: Britain's Crusading Atheist (Jonathan Luxmoore, Commonweal 134:8, 20 Apr 2007)

Defenders of Reason: A skeptical look at the world, because critical thinking is not optional (Lloyd Macalpine, Australia)

DeoLogic (Clayton Farris Naff et al., Center for the Advancement of Rational Faith)

Does God Exist? (debate mod. by Martin Bashir, Nightline Face-Off, ABC TV, 7 May 2007)

Does God Exist? William Lane Craig vs. John Shook (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada, 30 Jul 2008)

The Do-It-Yourself Deity (Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom, TPM ONline)

The Door Religious Satire Magazine

Doubt and About (Chris Mooney, CSICOP Web Column)

Doubting Dawkins: An Excerpt from Why There Almost Certainly Is a God (Keith Ward, The Global Spiral, 8 May 2009)

Ebon Musings: The Atheism Pages (Adam Marczyk)

ECSO - European Council of Skeptical Organisations

An Elemental Impulse: Religion is so Powerful that Even Soviet Antireligious Policy Failed (Paul Gabel, eSkeptic, 30 May 2007)

The Epicurean Humanist (David N. Christenson)

Fix Wikipedia (Michael Shermer, eSkeptic, 22 Jul 2009)

Flavin's Corner (Richard D. Flavin)

The Flipping Point -- How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip (Michael Shermer, Skeptic, Scientific American 294:6:28, Jun 2006)

Freedom from Religion (Gene R. Thursby, Religious Studies, UFla)

Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. (Dan Barker)

Free Inquiry (ed. Paul Kurtz)

-- CODESH Mirror

The Freethinker (UK)

Freethought Association of Canada (Toronto)

Freethought Crossroads - Your Guide to Freethought

The Freethought Directory (Atheist Alliance)

Freethought Mecca: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Humorless

Freethought Radio - The Voice of Freethought (Clinton O'Dell et al.)

The Freethought Ring (Internet Infidels)

Free Thoughts (Catherin Gregory)

The Freethought Web

Gary P. Posner (Tampa, Florida)

Geometry.net | Skeptical Inquiry

Godbusters - Home

God Debate: Sam Harris vs. Rick Warren (mod. Jon Meacham, MSNBC.com, 9 Apr 2007)

The Godlessheathen Home Page

Golshan Society | Islam Unveiled with Rational Thinking

The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Skeptic Reading Room, 3 Jan 2007)

The Great Debate: Deepak Chopra v. Michael Shermer
(eSkeptic, 28 Sep 2006)

The Great Debate: Does God exist? (podcast of debate between John Lennox & Michael Shermer, Center for Public Christianity, Sydney, Australia, 27 Aug 2008)

Greg Singer's Skeptic and Atheist Home Page

The Happy Heretic (Judith Hayes)

How to Find Meaning in Religion without Believing in God
(Matt Young, Free Inquiry, Summer 2002)

How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (Coby Beck, Gristmill)

How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science
(Michael Shermer)

Humanist Association Of Canada (Ottawa)

The Humanist Net Project

Humanist Perspectives (formerly Humanist in Canada)

The Humanist Society of New Zealand

Ian Rowland (London, UK)

The Importance of Skeptical Scholarship (Daniel Loxton, Skepticblog, 22 Jun 2010)

Inquiring Minds (CSICOP)

The Institute for Humanist Studies

Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society

The Intellectual Activist - An Objectivist Review

International Atheistic Secular Humanist Conspiracy, Canada Division (Greg Erwin)

The International Humanist and Ethical Union

The International Society for Islamic Secularization

Investigating Atheism (University of Cambridge)

"Is Christianity Good for the World?" Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson (Christianity Today, May 2007)

Is God a Delusion? William Lane Craig vs. Bill Cooke, Auckland University, New Zealand, 23 Jun 2008)

Is God a Delusion?: William Lane Craig vs Lewis Wolpert 1/12 (Debate in Central Hall Westminster, London, 27 Feb 2007)

Islam and the Koran (American Atheists)

Islamic Monitor

Islamic Skepticism (Institute for the Secularisation of Islam)

The Island of Doubt: Shipwrecked in a Sea of Certainty (blog by James Hrynyshyn)

James A. (Jim) Reeds

The James Randi Educational Foundation Homepage

The James Randi Hotline

Joyce Arthur

Junior Skeptic (Skeptics Society)

Kicking the Secularist Habit (David Brooks, The Atlantic Monthly 291:2:26-8, Mar 2003)

Kohary's Cove: Science and the Art of Skeptical Thought
(Mike Kohary)

Learning from Martin Gardner (Daniel Loxton, Skepticblog, 25 May 2010)

The Left Hemisphere: Skepticism, Religion, and Secularism on the WWW

Les Lane - Homepage

The Lippard Blog (Jim Lippard et al.)

Living Without Religion

Lonely Atheists of the Global Village (Michael Novak, National Review, 19 Mar 2007)

Losing Religion (William Lobdell, interviewed by Mary Hynes, Tapestry, CBC, 31 Jan 2010)

Mac Tonnies Visual Industries

Martin Gardner 1914-2010: Founder of the Modern Skeptical Movement (Michael Shermer interviews Martin Gardner, Skeptic Magazine 5:2 (1997), eSkeptic, 26 May 2010)

Massimo's Skeptic & Humanist Web (Massimo Pigliucci)

Michael Shermer debates Dinesh D'Souza - 'Is Christianity Good for the World?' (video, Critical Thinking, 20 Oct 2007)

Michael Shermer interviewed by Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report, Comedy Central, 21 Aug 2007)

Michael Shermer v. John Lennox, The Great Debate: Does God Exist? (Sydney, Aug 2008; eSkeptic, 5 Nov 2008)

Michael Shermer, The Work of (MichaelShermer.com)

MIT Atheists, Agnostics, and Humanists

Mixing Science and Politics (and Economics) (Michael Shermer, Skepticblog, 28 Jul 2009)

Motorcycle Maintenance Without the Zen: How Pirsig's Mistakes About Atheism Continue Today (Chris Edwards, eSkeptic, 28 Apr 2010)

Mr. Deity (Brian Dalton)

Mr. Deity and the Skeptic (Michael Shermer, YouTube, 2009)

Muslim Freethinkers

My Dinner (and Drinks) with Christopher (Hitchens that is) (Michael Shermer, Skepticblog, 20 Jul 2010)

My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism: A Discussion between Antony Flew and Gary Habermas (Evangelical Philosophical Society, 2008)

MythBusters (Jamie Hyneman & Adam Savage et al., Discovery Channel)

-- MythBusters (Wikipedia)

-- MythBusters Fan Club (Lisa LaVigne, Oak Park, Minnesota)

-- MythBusters Results

-- Mythbusters UK

-- MythBusters Wiki

National Secular Society (UK)

Naturalism.org (Thomas W. Clark)

Natural Philosophy Alliance

Neptune Home Page (Daniel Ust)

The New England Skeptical Society (Danbury, Connecticut)

New Humanist Magazine (Rationalist Association, London)

-- New Humanist Blog (Paul Sims)

New Mexicans for Science and Reason (Peralta, New Mexico)

The New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists

New Zealand Skeptics

Nine Boxes (ZS, Seti.net)

The Non-Believer's Page (Sean O'Dwyer)

Objective Thought (François Tremblay)

Objectivism (and Ayn Rand) WWW Service

Objectivism on the Web

Objectivism - The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

The Objectivism Resource Guide

The Objectivist Center (The Atlas Society, Washington, DC)

The Objectivist | Objectivism and Ayn Rand (Keith Gill)

Overcoming Bias (blog, Future of Humanity Institute)

The Page of Reason (Fredrik Bendz)

Penn & Teller (Penn Fraser Jillette & Raymond Joseph Teller, Las Vegas)

Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking

Philo Online (Society of Humanist Philosophers)

Point of Inquiry, with DJ Grothe (prod. Thomas Donnelly, Center for Inquiry, Amherst, New York)

Positive Atheism Magazine (ed. Cliff Walker)

A Possible Perfect World: Examining the Anti-theistic Argument Based On the Problem of Evil (John Gay, Christian Leadership Ministries, 14 Dec 2002)

Practical skepticism (Jim Norton, Fairfield, California)

The Rationalist Society of St. Louis

The Rationalists WebRing

Rationally Speaking, Massimo's Skeptic and Humanist Web (Massimo Pigliucci)

The Rational Response Squad (Rational Responders, Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania)

Rational Atheism: An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchins (Michael Shermer, Skeptic, Scientific American 397:3:44-6, Sep 2007)

Reality Check (ed. Massimo Pigliucci et al., Rationalists of East TN)

The Reasonableness of Weird Things (Daniel Loxton, Skepticblog, 26 Jul 2010)

Reasons to Believe Atheism

Reason Works - Audio Tapes for the Freethinker (Michael Scott Earl)

Red State Rabble: A skeptic's dispatches from the flyover zone (Pat Hayes)

Religious Freaks: One man's quest against religious idiocy (blog by Gasmonso)

The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website
(Savannah, Georgia)

Ring of Truth WebRing (Doron A. Tal)

Round Earth Society (Leo Vines et al., Brazil)

Sacramento Freethought (Sacramento, California)

The sacred and the human (Roger Scruton, Prospect Magazine 137, Aug 2007)

Sam Harris

Sandwalk: Strolling with a Skeptical Biochemist
(Laurence A. Moran, University of Toronto)

Science and the Media: A Web Column by Matthew Nisbet (CSICOP)

Sceptical Sources on the Internet

The Science of Religion (Gregory S. Paul)

Sci.skeptic FAQ: The Frequently Questioned Answers

Sci.skeptic FAQ: The Frequently Questioned Answers (Oxford LAS)

Search the Secular Web (Internet Infidels)

Secular Coalition for America (Washington, DC)

Secular Issues (Virtual Library)

Secular Student Alliance

The Secular Web (The Internet Infidels)

Secular Web Library

The Secular World Site - Portal to the Community of Reason on the Net

Skepchicks, International (Rebecca Watson et al., Boston)

The Skeptic (UK)

Skeptical Analysis of the Paranormal Society
(Alison Smith et al., SAPS)

Skeptical Articles (Dave Palmer)

Skeptical Information Links (Jim Lippard)

Skeptical Inquirer | The Magazine for Science and Reason (CSICOP)

The Skeptical Intelligencer (ASKE)

Skeptical Investigations (Rupert Sheldrake et al., Association for Skeptical Investigations, London)

Skepticality - Truth in Podcasting (Derek Colanduno & Swoopy)

Skeptical Links Index (Australian Skeptics Inc.)

The Skeptical Mind

Skeptical Science: Examining Global Warming Skepticism
(John Cook, University of Queensland)

Skepical Software Tools (Time Farley)

SKEPTIC Annotated Bibliography / Home Page (Taner Edis)

SkepticBlog

-- Introducing SkepticBlog (Steven Novella)

SkepticForum (The Skeptics Society)

The Skeptic Friends Network

Skepticism (Mike Combs)

Skepticism and Pseudoscience (SciEd)

Skepticism.net (Brian Carnell)

The Skeptical Environmentalist: A Case Study in the Manufacture of News (Matthew Nisbet, CSICOP, 23 Jan 2003)

Skepticism and Christianity (Edward T. Babinski)

Skepticism toward The Skeptical Environmentalist
(Scientific American Explore!, 15 Apr 2002)

-- Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty (Udvalgene Vedroerende Videnskabelig Uredelighed)

Skeptic Magazine (The Skeptics Society)

Skeptic News - The "What's New" Page for Skeptics (Wally Hartshorn)

Skeptico: Critical Thinking for an Irrational World
(Richard Rockley)

SkepticRadio (Tim Hammer)

SkepticReport (ed. Claus Larsen, Forest Hills, New York)

Skeptic Ring (Wally Hartshorn)

-- Site List

Skeptics (USD Cult Archaeology)

The Skeptic's Annotated Bible

The Skeptic's Dictionary Home Page (Robert T. Carroll)

A Skeptic's Guide to the Koran
(Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society)

The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe (Steven Novella)

Skeptics in the Pub (ASKE)

Skeptics Links (Ka Chun Yu)

The Skeptic's Refuge (Robert Todd Carroll)

The Skeptics Society (Michael Shermer et al., Altadena, California)

The Skeptic's Toolbox (Ray Hyman, CSICOP)

The Skeptic Tank (Fredric L. Rice)

Skeptic Tank Text Archive File

Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point (blog by Rupert Sheldrake et al., Association for Skeptical Investigations, London)

The Skeptiseum: The Skeptical Museum of the Paranormal
(Joe Nickell et al., CSICOP)

Skeptoid: Critical Analysis Podcast (Brian Dunning)

The Skeptologists (Brian Dunning & Ryan Johnson et al.)

Steven Carr - The UK's Leading Atheist Page

Tabloia: True Tabloid Tales for the Sophisticated Pseudo-Intellectual (Chris Wisnia)

Taking on Celebrity Atheists (Terry Eagleton, interviewed by Mary Hynes, Tapestry, CBC Radio, 8 Nov 2009)

Talk Reason

Tarksheel Society (Rationalist Society of India)

Taslima Nasrin Home Page

Testimonies: Why I Left Islam
(Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society)

To Question is the Answer (James A. Haught)

The Transhumanist FAQ (Nick Bostrom et al.)

Transhumanist Resources (Anders Sandberg)

The Truths Behind Religion

2think.org (Orin Ryssman)

Union of Freethinking Students

United States Atheist (The Center for Rational Thought)

The Unlikeliest Cult in History (Michael Shermer, from Skeptic, 1993)

Victoria Humanist Association (Andy Mulcahy et al., Victoria, BC)

The View from Number 80 - Skeptical Reviews (Ross W. Sargent)

A Visit to the Trenches of Nontheism (podcast, Skepticality #53, eSkeptic, 29 May 2007)

Walter W. Stewart's Home Page

War in Heaven: Hitchens Meets D'Souza on Home Turf (Meredith Bryan, The New York Observer, 23 Oct 2007)

Wasteland Of Wonders (Adrian Barnett, London)

What, If Anything, Can Skeptics Say About Science? (Daniel Loxton, Skepticblog, 22 Dec 2009)

What is the evidence for/against the existence of God?: William Lane Craig vs Peter Atkins (Debate, in 11 parts, mod. William F. Buckley, Jr, Firing Line, 3 Apr 1998)

What's So Great About God? Dinesh D'Souza vs. Christopher Hitchens Debate (University of Colorado, 26 Jan 2009)

Who are the Denyers and Court Jesters? (Joseph Romm, Climate Progress, 18 Aug 2007)

Who Was...Ayn Rand? ... A Biography, 1905-1982 (Ellen's Place)

Why Critical Scrutiny of Islam is an Utmost Necessity!
(Syed Kamran Mirza)

Why the Gods Are Not Winning (Gregory Paul & Phil Zuckerman, The Third Culture, Edge, 30 Apr 2007)

Why skeptics should pay close attention to Wikipedia (Tim Farley, Skeptical Software Tools, 8 Dec 2008)

Women Atheists on the Net (Catherin Gregory)

World Transhumanist Association

Yves Barbero Web Site

See also Critical Thinking

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