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A Continuing List of Examples of Alt-Righters Escaping Their Delusions

Richard Carrier — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:30:58 +0000

I am collecting stories of people who escaped secular delusions, like sexism, misogyny, racism, antisemitism, transphobia, or even, just more generally, alt-right, anti-feminist or “anti-SJW’ worldviews. These are the kinds of delusions that trap atheists. And even when their victims are religious, the stories are still often the same, or similar enough that you will […]

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A Bayesian Analysis of the Winling-Michney Thesis on Redlining

Richard Carrier — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 22:53:35 +0000

Last month I began a three-part series with A Bayesian Analysis of Susannah Rees’s Ishtar-in-the-Manosphere Thesis and A Bayesian Analysis of Kate Loveman’s Pepys Diary Thesis. Today I will conclude with the third random selection from my test set: LaDale C. Winling and Todd M. Michney, “The Roots of Redlining: Academic, Governmental, and Professional Networks in […]

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Justin Brierley on Moral Knowledge & the Problem of Evil

Richard Carrier — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 19:11:40 +0000

“But why exactly do we believe that human life should be valued?” Justin Brierley asks (p. 52). Nowhere in his quest for an answer does he ever resort to asking experts in moral psychology or sociology what science has found the answer to this question empirically to be, or even consult the over two thousand […]

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How I’d Answer the 2020 PhilPapers Survey

Richard Carrier — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 01:27:06 +0000

After reviewing the new 2020 PhilPapers Survey, I can say none of my views have changed; while philosophy as a field has slowly crept more toward my views than not (see my previous article, The New 2020 PhilPapers Survey, which also covers my thoughts on some of the strange or interesting things this new survey […]

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Three Common Tactics of Cranks, Liars, and Trolls

Richard Carrier — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 20:25:51 +0000

You might have noticed a shift over the past few years in how I address apologists, propagandists, kooks, and various disinformation scoundrels, toward laying out not just that they are wrong (their facts are bogus; their logic is hosed), but the underlying methodologies they are using that guarantee they’ll be wrong, methods distinctive only to […]

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Transracialism Is Either a Fraud or a Delusion in Precisely All the Ways Transgenderism Is Not

Richard Carrier — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 21:11:18 +0000

Dawkins is spewing irrational, uninformed bigotry-fuel on Twitter again. I don’t think deliberately; he’s just a clueless fool. But the effect is the same. He even unknowingly chose the tired old bigot’s tactic of Just Asking Questions, in precisely the way as shows he is not researching anything anymore, but just spewing uninformed nonsense with […]

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The Korean “Comfort Women” Dust-Up and the Function of Peer Review in History

Richard Carrier — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:57:29 +0000

It’s not common that major, respected academic journals exhibit a catastrophic failure in their peer review process. But it happens. Everything from creationist dribble to just about anything in any field has “slipped past” peer review protocols in legitimate journals—usually leading to retractions when caught (since the epistemic reliability of a journal literally hinges on […]

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Actually, Fryer Proved Systemic Racism in American Policing

Richard Carrier — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 02:34:50 +0000

People denying racism is a systemic problem in American policing repeatedly cite as “proof” a study published by Roland Fryer, which they particularly love citing because Fryer is black. The thing is though, Fryer’s study proved systemic racism in American policing. And you should know this in case anyone tries citing Fryer at you. First, […]

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Disarming the Motte and Bailey in Cultural Discourse

Richard Carrier — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 01:10:21 +0000

In aid and honor of my one-month online Critical Thinking Course that starts this weekend (Register Now!), I want to introduce you to a rhetorical (or indeed psychological) tactic that is found everywhere but you probably didn’t know someone had a name for it. I only just found out myself. And discovering its analysis was […]

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There Are No Muslim “No Go” Zones

Richard Carrier — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 04:34:01 +0000

There is no such thing as a “No Go Zone” in any Western country. And this is a conspiracy theory that needs to stop in the so-called Skeptic Community. Skeptics are supposed to know better than to fall for specious abuses of evidence and fallacious conspiracy theory rationalizations and tricks with words. And yet a […]

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