Just because you want it to be true doesn’t make it so. Or, Science says: “No association between hostility and homophobia” http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/09/13/is-homophobia-a-mental-illness/ “Is homophobia actually mental illness?” Well that’s a hell of a question. What constitutes a mental illness is an interesting question itself. Most people in the West tend to accept a number of mental…
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Guys Dig Chicks Who Are Non-Conformist
…says psychologist dressed in all black standing with a clipboard outside a punk rock concert. Or, young people don’t really care about “conformity”, based on mostly dubious survey data. “A Critical Test of the Assumption That Men Prefer Conformist Women and Women Prefer Nonconformist Men” This paper involves discussion of statistics which can be confusing…
Men in STEM Are So Sexist They Don’t Even Know It!
Or: females and university faculty have a small bias regarding sex and institution when reading psychology abstracts, and male university faculty in STEM departments slightly more skeptical than females about abstracts that accuse men of being sexist “Even With Hard Evidence Of Gender Bias In STEM Fields, Men Don’t Believe It’s Real”, reads the…
Likely Meaningless Dutch Study to Sooth American Parental Neuroticism.
“No offense, Homer, but your half-assed under-parenting was a lot more fun than your half-assed over-parenting.” Science has now proved that all that bitching adults have been doing about kids these days being spoiled is totally justified, so pat yourself on the back if you have not done so already. A new study from The…
I Fucking Love Phrenology
“Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery a hundred-sixty years ago.” – Mr. Smithers “Of course you’d say that; you have the brainpan of stagecoach-tilter.” – Mr. Burns To get to the part where I talk about phrenology, skip the first 1,600 words or so. On the off chance someone over 30 stumbled upon this,…
Christians are greedy assholes, says science
…paper with a lot to be desired Or, little kids are sociopathic little shits, confirms science So articles like this one in the Economist have been making the rounds amongst my atheist friends. If they’re sharing from an atheist social group, it usually comes with a tagline to the effect “atheists more generous than religious…