JFC, STFU with the whining about not “enough” straight, white, male humans. It’s tiresome and lame.

It’s fucking Star Trek. It’s the poster child for SJW shows. The whole franchise has been making social and political statements from the very beginning when they decided to have a multi-cultural cast and deal with issues like the Vietnam War, racism, the Cold War, etc.

I know it’s hard to review a Star Trek show without being influenced by the franchise’s long history. But we also tend to focus on the best episodes of previous Treks. For good reason, the best episodes are the most memorable. But fans have to stop acting like every other episode of Trek was a “Balance of Terror” or…

You keep throwing that SJW thing around like it’s effective, pumpkin. It’s adorable.

As always, I think Zack’s core criticism are accurate.

The thing about Bill Maher that’s always killed me is how pissy he gets when the audience doesn’t laugh at his jokes. He always lashes out and accuses them of being too PC and liberal, but Louis CK and South Park are proof positive that liberals are more than happy to laugh at an off color joke so long as it’s…

"If it's some kind of "natural" medicine, it's probably unpatentable (prior use). So who's going to pay for the studies required to turn it into "medicine"? IMO about the closest we'll get is drug companies looking at "natural" remedies and trying to discover something related they can patent - and make money on."

There is a saying in science that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Hate to tell you this, but medicinal leeches themselves were never quackery, but how they were used 200 years ago was, and still is to this day. We have recently found another use for leeches besides trying to cure disease by achieving the proper balance in vital fluids in ones body. They were a tool to an end then,…

"Placebo" effects take many forms and can be quite potent healing agents."

"1. Placebos can work even if you know they are placebos."

If it works, it's called "medicine", not alternative medicine. If it's alternative, it's because real doctors and scientists have been offered no evidence it works. If you have a method that works, and is not accepted by real medicine, you could make a trillion dollars demonstrating that it operates…

No I didn't. The agnostic stance is just not necessary is all I meant because changing your mind is contained by the atheist designation. To be fair, when I was religious, I thought all the denominations were really silly, too. Parsing something which is basically the same into so many unnecessary sub-categories seems…

Yes, it is silly. Atheists can always change their minds if there is evidence. There is nothing about saying "I don't believe due to lack of evidence" that means one is closed-minded or would deny evidence. There is no dogma to protect — it's all evidence-based. If there's evidence, most atheists would go with the…

This is a very common misconception that it is important to rectify.