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  • 15-02-2013 8:09pm
    #1
    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭


    I'm fairly terrible at actually discovering new and interesting reading material online. I used to read a few blogs such as pharyngula, thunderf00t's wordpress and a few others but over time and with certain teacup storms I've either lost interest or the quality has seriously declined.

    What blogs does A&A read? Not strictly atheist blogs, but generally interesting blogs with a skeptical bent.


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  • #2
    N64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭N64


    http://www.youthdefence.ie/blog/

    :pac:


  • #3
    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    N64 wrote: »
    http://www.youthdefence.ie/blog/

    :pac:

    If I weren't a pro-choice atheist already, YD would certainly push me in that direction.


  • #4
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    I don't really go to blogs, I prefer watching videos on YouTube. If you need some tips in that direction, just ask. Despite me not going to blogs, I do know some you may or may not know of. Three of the top of my head, two of which should be fairly obvious.

    http://www.michaelnugent.com/
    http://www.atheist.ie/
    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/

    Again, I mostly go by video format, so these are off the top of my head. I'm sure I've come across other ones being mentioned. If I think of others, I'll edit this post, or if someone has responded I'll make a new one.


  • #5
    94Conor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭94Conor


    Humanisticus -

    http://skepticink.com/humanisticas/

    Debunking Christianity -

    http://skepticink.com/debunkingchristianity/


  • #6
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    fitz0 wrote: »
    What blogs does A&A read?
    Following elevatorgate, I stopped reading most of the few skeptic/atheist blogs I used to read. If I did have time, I'd probably read Jerry Coyne's blog, but the formatting is dreadful, so I probably wouldn't bother. Ben Goldacre's Bad Science is much the same -- good content let down by bad formatting. Jesus And Mo is a cartoon, not a blog, but it's consistently excellent.

    As for link farms, well, roughly in declining order of worth:

    http://www.aldaily.com
    http://www.slashdot.org
    http://www.fark.com


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  • #7
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I don't read blogs or watch atheist related YouTube videos.

    The only related thing I do (or did, at least) was troll the Pope on Twitter. :)


  • #8
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,032 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    robindch wrote: »
    Following elevatorgate, I stopped reading most of the few skeptic/atheist blogs I used to read. If I did have time, I'd probably read Jerry Coyne's blog, but the formatting is dreadful, so I probably wouldn't bother. Ben Goldacre's Bad Science is much the same -- good content let down by bad formatting.
    Then why not read blogs in a RSS news reader, such as Google Reader? New entries pop up automatically i.e. you don't have to "do the rounds" to see what's new, and the formatting is what the news reader uses.

    edit: Coyne's feed looks great in Google Reader, but Bad Science is set to display only the first paragraph or two - hate that.

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  • #9
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,783 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    robindch wrote: »
    Ben Goldacre's Bad Science is much the same -- good content let down by bad formatting.

    He has a new book out, Bad Pharma, anybody read it? Any good?


  • #10
    senecafalls
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭senecafalls


    Videos! http://www.youtube.com/user/QualiaSoup

    Also 'The Demon Haunted World' by Carl Sagan is a terrific book, a skeptics bible.


  • #11
    donspeekinglesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭donspeekinglesh


    Mark Hamill wrote: »

    He has a new book out, Bad Pharma, anybody read it? Any good?
    It's excellent, though slightly depressing when you realise exactly how much manipulation of trials and data is going on, and how the regulators claim everything is okay.


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  • #12
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Mark Hamill wrote: »
    He has a new book out, Bad Pharma, anybody read it? Any good?
    My sister read it -- said it's great.


  • #13
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Dades wrote: »
    The only related thing I do (or did, at least) was troll the Pope on Twitter. :)

    Also a guilty pleasure of mine. :)

    I'm going to miss him. *sniff*


  • #14
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,261 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    http://geoffsshorts.blogspot.ie/

    This blog is great with regards abortion/Iona/YouthDefence etc. Some fantastic information on it.

    It's so good you'd think oldrnwisr had written it :D


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