When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June of 2022 — destroying the constitutional right to abortion access — conservative Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion that the court should also reconsider previous rulings that established the right to contraception. Less than a month later, all but 10 House Republicans voted against a proposed bill that would have enshrined access to birth control into law. Senate Republicans didn’t support the legislation, either. If it wasn’t clear then that conservatives might move to restrict access to contraception, it is now.
- 2/23/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
YouTube took down a video of an interview that featured Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who made claims that there are chemicals in our water that are turning children transgender.
YouTube stated that they took down the video of the Jordan Peterson podcast because it violated their terms of service about vaccine misinformation.
Kennedy and Peterson tweeted about their interview being taken down. They also shared the video so that viewers can watch it on Twitter.
Kennedy is currently a presidential candidate in the Democratic primary. He has spoken about his views on vaccinations many times in different podcasts.
“What do you think … Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates? My conversation with @JordanBPeterson was deleted by @YouTube. Luckily you can watch it here on @Twitter (thank you @elonmusk). #Kennedy24,” Kennedy tweeted.
What do you think … Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates? My conversation with @JordanBPeterson was deleted by @YouTube.
YouTube stated that they took down the video of the Jordan Peterson podcast because it violated their terms of service about vaccine misinformation.
Kennedy and Peterson tweeted about their interview being taken down. They also shared the video so that viewers can watch it on Twitter.
Kennedy is currently a presidential candidate in the Democratic primary. He has spoken about his views on vaccinations many times in different podcasts.
“What do you think … Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates? My conversation with @JordanBPeterson was deleted by @YouTube. Luckily you can watch it here on @Twitter (thank you @elonmusk). #Kennedy24,” Kennedy tweeted.
What do you think … Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates? My conversation with @JordanBPeterson was deleted by @YouTube.
- 6/21/2023
- by Nina Hauswirth
- Uinterview
Chicago – Magician James Randi, or “The Amazing Randi,” has a made a legacy in using his love of magic to show audiences how they’re being tricked by evangelists, spoon-benders, psychics, etc. A ruthlessly charming Houdini-wannabe with instant showman charisma, he exists as the humbling gravity to a world that can convince itself that unattainable answers are to be found in ideas beyond science.
When someone claims that they’re able to talk to spirits from over 35,000 years ago, or can push a pen with extreme focus and the wave of their hand, Randi shows up at the scene, and throws down with logic at his side. It often happens on the stage of talk shows, whether it’s Johnny Carson or Larry King, and it’s glorious. He never loses. In a world where a sucker is indeed born every minute, he’s a hero as much as he is a necessity.
When someone claims that they’re able to talk to spirits from over 35,000 years ago, or can push a pen with extreme focus and the wave of their hand, Randi shows up at the scene, and throws down with logic at his side. It often happens on the stage of talk shows, whether it’s Johnny Carson or Larry King, and it’s glorious. He never loses. In a world where a sucker is indeed born every minute, he’s a hero as much as he is a necessity.
- 3/19/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The star has revealed that he watches hours and hours of the talks online. Does he know something we don't?
At the end of a curious interview with New York magazine, during which father-and-son film stars Will and Jaden Smith declared their certainty that there is a pattern to everything, which has yet to be understood because we have yet to evolve the necessary multidimensional mathematics that is beyond mathematical, 14-year-old Jaden revealed the family's sources. Will watches "hours and hours" of Ted talks.
Ted (Technology, Education, Design) is a global set of conferences in which speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas. There are now more than 1,500 of these talks, ranging from the cosmologist Sean Carroll discussing why we aren't a random fluctuation out of the nothingness, why we can't live in thermal equilibrium and how our own universe might have sprung from a universal chicken,...
At the end of a curious interview with New York magazine, during which father-and-son film stars Will and Jaden Smith declared their certainty that there is a pattern to everything, which has yet to be understood because we have yet to evolve the necessary multidimensional mathematics that is beyond mathematical, 14-year-old Jaden revealed the family's sources. Will watches "hours and hours" of Ted talks.
Ted (Technology, Education, Design) is a global set of conferences in which speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas. There are now more than 1,500 of these talks, ranging from the cosmologist Sean Carroll discussing why we aren't a random fluctuation out of the nothingness, why we can't live in thermal equilibrium and how our own universe might have sprung from a universal chicken,...
- 6/2/2013
- by John Crace
- The Guardian - Film News
Forrest J Ackerman Communicating from the Other Side in New Documentary The Life After Death Project
On December 4, 2008, the horror and sci-fi genres lost their favorite Uncle when Forrest J Ackerman passed away. Since then each day we miss him more and more. Now a new documentary has come that's intriguing to say the least.
From writer/producer/director Paul Davids comes The Life After Death Project, and it focuses on the very real possibility of after death communication, particularly with Forrest J Ackerman. The film, which airs on the Syfy Channel May 15 before getting a two-disc Collector's Edition DVD release nationwide on July 16, features interviews with authors Richard Matheson, Whitley Strieber, Dannion Brinkley, and Michael Shermer as well as scientists and top tier mediums. Check out the trailer and poster below.
Don't really know how to feel about this one. On one hand is exploitative, but on the other Forry just may have gotten a kick out of this.
Synopsis
A mesmerizing "CSI"-caliber quest...
From writer/producer/director Paul Davids comes The Life After Death Project, and it focuses on the very real possibility of after death communication, particularly with Forrest J Ackerman. The film, which airs on the Syfy Channel May 15 before getting a two-disc Collector's Edition DVD release nationwide on July 16, features interviews with authors Richard Matheson, Whitley Strieber, Dannion Brinkley, and Michael Shermer as well as scientists and top tier mediums. Check out the trailer and poster below.
Don't really know how to feel about this one. On one hand is exploitative, but on the other Forry just may have gotten a kick out of this.
Synopsis
A mesmerizing "CSI"-caliber quest...
- 5/1/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Interesting mix of the TV tonight, a bit heavy on the reality series but that's par for the course in terms of summer. I know that many of you are connoisseurs of Lifetime movies and we've got one tonight that is evidently based on the life of Joanne Rowling. Now, I won't deny that her story of going from a single mother on the dole to world famous and obscenely wealthy author is probably an awesome story but the source I found indicates that they're beginning the movie during her childhood which... yeah. Moving on! Also we've got "The Big C" which is the second show in two nights that I've had to write about that is supposed to feature a dying protagonist and yet is into it's second season? I'm beginning to feel that perhaps basing series around characters who aren't meant to be alive too long is a bad idea,...
- 7/18/2011
- by Intern Rusty
For a decent number of Pajiba After Dark readers, tonight will probably be the last night of TV they watch for the week since A Dance with Dragons comes out tomorrow so all of them will be eyeball deep in their books/Kindles hastening towards the end of the "Song of Ice and Fire" series that I'm sure George R. R. Martin has completely planned out to a meticulous and thoroughly satisfying conclusion. Awww, now I feel bad. It's not nice to tease about these things, as anyone who was a fan of "Battlestar: Galactica" should be aware of. Now I made myself sad. There's just no winning here. Here's your stupid Monday night TV:
8:00pm: "The Bachelorette" on ABC
"Basketball Wives" on VH1
"Eureka" on SyFy. Fourth season summer premiere.
"Inside the Actor's Studio: Jennifer Aniston" on Bravo
"Secret Life of the American Teenager" on ABC Family...
8:00pm: "The Bachelorette" on ABC
"Basketball Wives" on VH1
"Eureka" on SyFy. Fourth season summer premiere.
"Inside the Actor's Studio: Jennifer Aniston" on Bravo
"Secret Life of the American Teenager" on ABC Family...
- 7/11/2011
- by Intern Rusty
While most cable news discussions today look at the substantive aspects of an issue, many leave one scratching one's head with how one or another party could stick to their beliefs in the situation. Why are some people not amenable to persuasion by facts? Judge Andrew Napolitano enlisted the help of science historian Michael Shermer to figure out why some "reject an obvious order in the universe."...
- 6/11/2011
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.
As founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer has exposed fallacies behind intelligent design, 9/11 conspiracies, the low-carb craze, alien sightings and other popular beliefs and paranoias. But it's not about debunking for debunking's sake. Shermer defends the notion that we can understand our world better only by matching good theory with good science. Thus, in order to explore a conspiracy theory that pre-planted explosives caused the World Trade Center towers to fall on 9/11, the magazine called on demolition experts.
Shermer's work offers cognitive context for our often misguided beliefs: In the absence of sound science, incomplete information can powerfully combine with the power of suggestion (helping us...
As founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer has exposed fallacies behind intelligent design, 9/11 conspiracies, the low-carb craze, alien sightings and other popular beliefs and paranoias. But it's not about debunking for debunking's sake. Shermer defends the notion that we can understand our world better only by matching good theory with good science. Thus, in order to explore a conspiracy theory that pre-planted explosives caused the World Trade Center towers to fall on 9/11, the magazine called on demolition experts.
Shermer's work offers cognitive context for our often misguided beliefs: In the absence of sound science, incomplete information can powerfully combine with the power of suggestion (helping us...
- 6/16/2010
- doorQ.com
Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb. 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
The first Darwin Day was initiated by Dr. Robert ("Bob") Stephens and took place at Stanford University, with the help of the Stanford Humanists student group and the Humanist Community, on April 22, 1995. The famous anthropologist Dr. Donald Johanson, who discovered the early fossil human called ‘Lucy’, gave a lecture entitled "Darwin and Human Origins" to over 600 people in the Kresge Auditorium.
In subsequent years the location and date of the celebration was changed to coincide with Darwin's birthday and was held on, or near, February 12 each year. The success of the venture is reflected in the list of speakers which include Richard Dawkins, 1996; Paul Berg, 1997; Robert Sapolsky, 1998; Douglas Hofstadter, 1999; Michael Shermer, 2001; Robert Stephens and Arthur Jackson, 2003; Robert and Lola Stephens,...
The first Darwin Day was initiated by Dr. Robert ("Bob") Stephens and took place at Stanford University, with the help of the Stanford Humanists student group and the Humanist Community, on April 22, 1995. The famous anthropologist Dr. Donald Johanson, who discovered the early fossil human called ‘Lucy’, gave a lecture entitled "Darwin and Human Origins" to over 600 people in the Kresge Auditorium.
In subsequent years the location and date of the celebration was changed to coincide with Darwin's birthday and was held on, or near, February 12 each year. The success of the venture is reflected in the list of speakers which include Richard Dawkins, 1996; Paul Berg, 1997; Robert Sapolsky, 1998; Douglas Hofstadter, 1999; Michael Shermer, 2001; Robert Stephens and Arthur Jackson, 2003; Robert and Lola Stephens,...
- 2/12/2010
- doorQ.com
I get sent stuff all the time: pictures, links, possible stories, latest discoveries -- and conspiracy theories, grand plots, and crazy "world changing" theorems. For the first bit, I'm appreciative. For the last bit, I never quite have all the time necessary to educate folks on critical thinking skills needed to navigate the pitfalls of putrid information.
It's not like I'm an expert on critical thinking, either. I get tripped up all the time. But I've always thought that since I love aliens, UFOs, the X-Files, magic, Esp and the like, it behooves me to at least try to figure out what's real and what is, really, just fiction. I love fiction. I write the shit for a living.
But with a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims, and get to the truth? Michael Shermer of Skeptic...
It's not like I'm an expert on critical thinking, either. I get tripped up all the time. But I've always thought that since I love aliens, UFOs, the X-Files, magic, Esp and the like, it behooves me to at least try to figure out what's real and what is, really, just fiction. I love fiction. I write the shit for a living.
But with a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims, and get to the truth? Michael Shermer of Skeptic...
- 1/24/2010
- doorQ.com
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