skeptical movement

It is well-known that Paul Kurtz was instrumental in founding the modern skeptic and secular humanist movements. That was in itself a source of tension, because many skeptics were indifferent to secular humanism. Later when the "New Atheism" came along, a source of tension was that they...

http://www.mallorienasrallah.com/skeptic Penn Jillette posted this on his facebook an hour ago along with the comment "I tweeted this and it's been sent to all the big cheeses at JREF. It's a POV that's been ignored." We love you too Mallorie

re: "skeptical movement" I've received plenty of emails from uninformed people questioning my benign and factual use of the words "skeptical movement". I'm sure some dogmatically perceive it as an insult because they want to believe that only believers have movements or something, or only...

Did anyone else notice that on Sunday morning after her talk, someone asked Kylie Sturgess a question about how we can improve diversity in the skeptics movement, then made a comment (about being tired of ivory-tower types, which was applauded) and Kylie never answered the question? I was...

Is having a character like Uri Geller around a benefit or a hindrance to the skeptical movement?

Before this conference I used to enjoy reading Randi's site and laughing at how funny people are and what they will believe, but took it no further than that. But this whole experience along with reading the Uri Geller book over the last couple of days has made me start to really feel angry...