Have a great week!

Some nights I sneak around the Campus, spray-painting ‘QUALIA’ on the walls of the Psychology Dept block then strike it through.

RTFF

*Governments and legal systems still tend to conceptualize atheism and humanism merely as an absence of religion rather than positive philosophical convictions entitled to equal respect. Freedom of religion or belief doesn’t mean religion plus an exemption for everyone else. The State doesn’t get to decide that theological convictions are…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Progressive Zack Polanski of the Green Party is now calling for state control of media in the wake of the Jason Arday story:

https://x.com/ZackPolanski/status/2089829574356193745?s=20

Fellow Unbelievers:

An even more interesting sidebar story to the Jason Arday story: Racist Eugenicist Nathan Covnas would never have got the attention he got if Jason Arday had not called the police on Times Higher Education Journalist Jack Groves for engaging in simple journalistic inquiry:

I was reported to police over the Arday case. I was…[Read more]

Jake:

I should quickly add that fortunately Nathan Covnas is also not a part of the chain of my treatment. His bedside manner would involve making people “go away.” And much to his own display of stupidity and ignorance, his own bedside manner in other hands would make him “go away.”

Higher Academia is at a truly interesting spot. The big…[Read more]

Jake:

So you are skeptical?

I reserve judgment. Obviously need repetition and consistency before it is a thing. Keep in mind again that the mind clearly plays a role in the placebo effect.

The consistency I rely upon is that no Physician has ever prescribed this treatment to me. If Drs. Mizrachi, Rosencrantz, and Rottum come with greater…[Read more]