Best Blog Posts 2014 (Science, Skepticism, & Science Fiction)

We started this blog in July 2013. Since then, we’ve been posting almost daily.

When considering the popularity of the posts, one thing stands out:  in all but a few cases, popularity declines over time.

As well, the readership of this blog has expanded gradually over time, so most readers have never seen what we consider many of our best posts.

So, over the next week or two we’ll put up lists of our best posts from 2014 and 2015 in the categories of atheism, religion, anarchism, humor, politics, music, science fiction, science, skepticism, book and movie reviews, writing, language use, and economics.

We’ve already put up the best posts of 2013 and the best religion and atheism posts of 2014. Because there were considerably more posts in 2014 and 2015 than in 2013, we’ll be putting up several posts for those years divided by category. Here’s the second of them, the best 2014 posts on science, skepticism, and science fiction. We hope you  enjoy them.

Science

• Why Science Leaves Religion in the Dust
• Alcoholics Anonymous Is Not Effective

Skepticism

• Homeopathy (definition)
• Faith: A False Virtue
• Michael Crichton’s Defense of New Age Mysticism
• Zen and the Art of Fallacious Reasoning
• Astrology: Fraud or Superstituion?
• Abductee Blues

Science Fiction

• Positive Science Fiction: Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” Novels
• Anarchist Science Fiction: Essential Novels
• Review: Code of the Lifemaker, by James P. Hogan
• Review: The Immortality Option, by James P. Hogan
• Review: Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
• Review: The Rhesus Chart, by Charles Stross
• Review: TVA Baby, by Terry Bisson
• Free Radicals (excerpt)