According to Bruce Flamm, long-time critic of one of the best known studies that claimed real effects due to intercessory prayer, further reasons to be dubious of the study authors’ work has surfaced, in the form of one being caught in plagiarism. In summary, the man who designed and supposedly conducted the prayer study resides … The study without a prayer

Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite novelists (the somewhat obscure Deadeye Dick in particular) and cultural commentators. He is deeply rooted in the freethought tradition, and has served as honorary president of the American Humanist Association. Lately, though, he seems to be on a strange anti-Darwinian kick. For example, about a year ago, the … Vonnegut goes off deep end about Darwin?