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Epiphenom

The psychology and sociology of the causes and effects of religion and non-belief.
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Related Topics: heres, paper, people, religion, religious, study
Author: Tom R.
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Live long and be atheist

Nov 3, 2009
The splendid World Happiness Database has released a new analysis of their 2009 data. Basically what they've done is to multiply happiness scores in each nation with the life expectancy. The idea is that what most people want is a life that's both long...

Is ritual purification brain down to a brain short circuit?

Oct 31, 2009
You might have seen the recent study which found that the subtle smell of Windex (a brand of window cleaner) makes people more charitable. Time magazine, for one, carried a report - which got up the nose of a writer on the GetReligion blog. Here's the...

The inheritance of religion

Oct 28, 2009
An earlier post looked at the connection in the USA between religion and a high teen pregnancy rate. High fertility and religion often goes together, and whenever this topic comes up the immediate question is: will the religious inexorably 'out-breed'...

The doctors who hasten death

Oct 25, 2009
This Fridays' Guardian reports on a new survey which found that a third of doctors in the UK have taken treatment decisions they thought would hasten a patient's death. The sorts of patients we're talking about here are those who are already near...

The Malthusian time bomb

Oct 22, 2009
Here's a study that Razib over at Gene Expression picked up on last month. Basically, it's a very simple regression of religiosity versus teen births in US states. Importantly, it's an ecological study. That means it's not looking necessarily at...


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Tom R.
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  Covers quite a wide range of topics related to humanism (atheism) and science. Subjects include psychology, morality, education, evolution etc. Style can be patchy, but it's mostly readable. On the whole, somewhat highbrow but would be of interest to anyone with an interest in science.
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