Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower