I have copied all the transhumanism pages to my new
transhumanism Web site, ThinkBeyond.us. New articles related to
skepticism, transhumanism, and rationality will appear there.
“The brain is not an organ of thinking but an organ of survival,
like claws and fangs. It is made in such a way as to make us
accept as truth that which is only advantage. It is an
exceptional, almost pathological constitution one has, if one
follows thoughts logically through, regardless of consequences.
Such people make martyrs, apostles, or scientists, and mostly
end on the stake, or in a chair, electric or academic.” —Albert
Szent-Gyorgi  One of the greatest threats I see today facing the
industrialized world in general, and the United States in
particular, is credulity--the willingness to believe, on slight
or no evidence, the most outrageous of things. Scepticism and
intellectual rigor are greeted with hostility; science is under
seige in classrooms and in popular culture; in matters of public
policy debate, superstition and un