This song is worth a listen. It has a great ending….orthopods rock!!! Music is by Adam Kay and Suman Biswas (aka the Amateur Transplants) from their album Fitness to Practice.

1. “George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.” – Sam Harris

2. “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours” -Stephen Roberts

3. “I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence” -Doug McLeod

4. “With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” -Steven Weinberg

5. “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” -Richard Dawkins

6. “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike” -Delos B. McKown

7. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” – Albert Einstein

8. “Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.” -Chapman Cohen

9 “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” -Albert Einstein

10. “Don’t pray in my school, and I won’t think in your church” – Unknown

11. “I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them” -Galileo Galilei

God is for Suckers recently posted an article about the limitation of extremism in the Netherlands. I realize that this is a little off topic, but I think that it still applies.

I believe that moderate religion is still a huge part of the problem. Moderate religion creates an environment in which extremism is justified. If enough moderate people believe in the same ideas, sooner or later someone is going to take it to the extreme. Religious faiths have a free card when it comes to their beliefs are critized. This free card is used in both moderate and extreme religion. If there was no moderate religion, then there would be no religous extremists causing problems!!

Youtube has to be the worst site on the net for bad comments. This comic is from xkcd.com. It is a regular webcomic which I really relate to.

A new documentary is claiming there is a strong link between evolution and Hitler. Scarily, Ann Coulter is involved. It is sad to know that people will watch and believe this.

Check out their website here

Here is a great interview with Richard Dawkins. It is good to see a Dawkins interview in which he is actually allowed to speak.
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Open Medicine is a new open-access Medical Journal. It is free to access and no subscription is required. They have released two peer-reviewed issues so far. One of the ideas behing Open Medicine is to promote international collaboration and dialogue.

I believe that projects similar to this are very important for society. I am still disappointed that good scientific literature is not available to the masses. Currently, it is only available free and practically to university students. The general population should not be getting their science news for newspapers’ “pseudo-science” sections. It is amazing how many articles that use bad science get publish in peer-reviewed journals. This bad-sciense is amplified in the newspapers and pseudo-science articles that the general population read.

Stop reading the newspaper and start reading a journal!!!!

www.openmedicine.ca