Reason has little to do with it

Reason is Cast Aside
Lady Science Has Fled
Faith and Superstition
Fill The Believer’s Head
Teaching Pigs to Sing (Skeptical Inquirer July/August 2006)

It was the beginning of an odyssey that introduced me to a strange race of people who believed in angels but not in germs. I can only compare it to visiting a carnival freak show of intellectual, rather than physical, anomalies. I observed how the average nonskeptic member of the public reacts to these anomalies. It almost destroyed my faith in human reason.

Political correctness and the demise of common sense language

A peak in eastern British Columbia was officially renamed Mount Pierre Elliott Trudeau on Saturday. Read the story here

Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, an enthusiastic outdoors person, is seen here in 1983 paddling across the Ottawa River.

"outdoors person" !!! Tell me, what is wrong with the term, 'outdoorsman,' which means 'a person who enjoys spending time outdoors?'

This political correctness/gender neutrality thing is really annoying.