Pursuit of the truth requires more than imagination: it requires the generation and decisive elimination of alternative possibilities until, ideally, only one remains, and it requires a habitual readiness to attack one's own convictions.
- Thomas Nagel, The View From Nowhere

February 22, 2012

NEPA Freethought Society Podcast: Episode 8

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The
eighth episode of the NEPA Freethought Society Podcast featuring an interview with special guest humanist author and speaker Jen Hancock. Stream/download here, listen/download on iTunes here, and subscribe to our RSS feed.

Past episodes are available here.


Jen Hancock is the author of “The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Practical Wisdom” and “Jen Hancock's Handy Humanism Handbook.” She writes a freelance column about humanism for the Bradenton Herald Newspaper, writes for Examiner.com as the Tampa Humanist and Freethought Examiner, and publishes the Happiness Through Humanism blog and podcast. Jen is also a speaker specializing in humanism, ethics, and morality. Bio-ethicist and author Torben Riise has called Jen “one of the finest minds in Humanism” today.

February 20, 2012

'Zombie Mohammad' Ernest Perce threatened with jail for releasing audio of trial

I published a new article for Examiner.com titled "'Zombie Mohammad' Ernest Perce threatened with jail for releasing audio of trial." Read this article and more on my Examiner.com page and please subscribe for instant updates of new content.

Chiropractor to attend upcoming Marywood health fair...my response

Sorry for the lack of posts and Examiner.com articles.

I had suspended writing in order to reserve room for information concerning the upcoming bus ad campaign, but now have some important news and a letter to share with my readers to address a local concern.

Marywood University -- no stranger to including 'alternative medicine' at campus health fairs -- has invited a chiropractor who endorses ideas of "life energy" and subluxations to attend an upcoming campus health fair. Here is my response that I sent to the listed contact of this health fair. Please spread this letter and if you are a Marywood student or perhaps someone else interested in the well-being of the Marywood community, feel free to author a letter of your own to bdecker@marywood.edu.

MU_Chiro

February 16, 2012

NEPA Freethought Society Podcast: Episode 7

Episode seven of the NEPA Freethought Society is now available! Rodney and I discuss the recent debate I had with Methodist minister Rev. Marcelle Dotson and our proposed bus ad campaign slated to appear on County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS) buses in Pennsylvania. Listen and/or download here. We're also available on iTunes.

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