Dr. Tom Arcaro, Professor of Sociology, Elon University, US and his team are conducting an online survey on international community of atheists. It is an exercise in understanding the community of non-believers the world over. Though it is designed to be an international survey, so far it has elicited responses mostly from US and Canada. Since…
Massimo Pigliucci My experience (anecdotal, yes, but ample and varied) has been that there is quite a bit of un-reason within the Community of Reason (henceforth, CoR). This takes the form of more or less widespread belief in scientific, philosophical and political notions that don’t make much more sense than the sort of notions we…
Institution of Engineers is an august body of engineering professionals in India. It was established way back in the 1920s to cater to the educational and other professional aspirations of engineers. It is claimed to be, according to Wikipedia, “the largest multi-disciplinary engineering professional society in the English speaking world”. It obtained, in 1935, the…
On June 7, 2011, soon after Baba Ramdev’s ‘fast unto death’ was disrupted by the Delhi Police, I received a similarly absurd mail as the one I mentioned in my last blog. LOKPAL BILL : JUST A MISS CALL AWAY +912261550789 Govt. of India put a condition that 25 CRORES of people support is needed…
Carvaka One of the most distressing aspects of the ongoing anti-corruption movement in India is the absolute lack of skepticism among a significant section of the camp followers of Anna Hazare (and, is there any need to say, among the followers of the contortionist Baba Ramdev). In their effort to get others in their bandwagon,…
Premanand’s popular book, “Science versus Miracles”, has not been available for some time now. Since Premanand himself was the distributor of the books he published and since he did not make any specific arrangement to print and distribute the books he brought out under Indian Skeptic logo, after his death there was nobody to carry…