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Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Apr 16 2012 - 4:41pm

Autism Speaks Issues Statement Concerning Judge Rotenberg Center

On March 22, I called on Autism Speaks and the Autism Society of America t o stand up against the abuse, restraint and torture occurring at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Today, I received an official statement from Autism Speaks through  Marc Sirkin, Autism ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 18 2012 - 4:17pm

Autism Society Issues Statement Regarding The Judge Rotenberg Center

The Judge Rotenberg Center is on trial, legally, for negligence in the 31 shocks and hours of restraint that Andre McCollins suffered at the hands of JRC staff and in the court of public opinion, finally, for its decades of use of skin shocks by a device M ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 19 2012 - 2:43pm

Religion 2.0

This blog is more an ear than a tongue. It needs you, and we need a way to revere life while respecting the gift of our critical intellect. We may need to have fun, may need to let our ideas dance for and by themselves. Some elements of a fresh, non-author ...

Blog Post - Ronald Marks - Apr 28 2012 - 11:18pm

Where Are All The ITaxes

If we had a prize for Most Celebrated Business Hero in America, it would have to be Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple. The agile doge of Silicon Valley had a “death stare” you couldn’t escape. He had a up-from-orphan back story you couldn’t resist. And ...

Article - Greg Critser - Apr 30 2012 - 10:26pm

The Little Petition That Could: Stop the Judge Rotenberg Center from Shocking Clients

How do you effect change, change that's big, change that's lasting? Can you, can one person, have that kind of impact? I remember arguing adamantly with my grandfather nearly 24 years ago that one person can change the world. We argued back and f ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - May 8 2012 - 5:24pm

THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE 3.0

3) A scientific "paper" could be any file in the www 2) The quotations should be always links: Not only to passages or texts, but also to images, audios, videos, blogs, sites, etc.- should be admitted as quotations 1) The reviewers are all Intern ...

Blog Post - Vasil Penchev - May 18 2012 - 11:47pm

Entanglement and Gravity

All as about "quantum gravity" as about "the interpretations of quantum mechanics" shows only our misunderstanding of what quantum mechanics means and wants to tell us. Its "complementarity" is especially misleading without be ...

Blog Post - Vasil Penchev - May 22 2012 - 10:21pm

Finding My Religion: The New Intersection Of Christianity And Environmentalism

CHERRY HILL, NJ-- Standing next to my Dad under the watchful eyes of the sculpted Jesus I remembered well from childhood church services, I resolutely censored a mental curse. I hadn't attended Catholic mass regularly in years, and while I was embarr ...

Article - Holly Moeller - May 24 2012 - 1:11am

In Defense Of Criticism (And Skepticism)

My friend Benny (who produces the Rationally Speaking podcast) really hates the word “skepticism.” He understands and appreciates its meaning and long intellectual pedigree (heck, we even did a show on that!), but he also thinks — based on anecdotal eviden ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - May 23 2012 - 1:39pm