Jeff Schweitzer

Jeff Schweitzer is a scientist and former White House Senior Policy Analyst; Ph.D. in marine biology/neurophysiology

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How We Triumph In the Age of Ignorance Jul 14th 2017
Faith, Fox and the Failure of Politics Jul 11th 2017
I weep for my country Nov 11th 2016
Requiem for an American Blogger Nov 10th 2016
Asymmetric Warfare: The Fight Against Conservative Smear Campaigns Oct 27th 2016
Trump is No Gore Oct 21st 2016
I Have More Respect For Trump Voters Than Undecided Ones Oct 15th 2016
The Curse of False Equivalency Sep 7th 2016
Voodoo Medicine: Time To Stop Aug 13th 2016
Opinions Are Overrated Aug 11th 2016
One Coin, Two Sides: Brexit and Trump Jul 1st 2016
What Would George Washington Do? May 20th 2016
Prince and Princess and Misplaced Priorities Apr 26th 2016
Liberals Losing Perspective Apr 19th 2016
What Is Life? Apr 9th 2016
Spring Fever: Nuclear Energy Madness Apr 2nd 2016
Trump is the Symptom, Not the Disease Mar 8th 2016
Fuel Prices, Faulty Logic and False Indignation: Conservatives Gone Wild Feb 6th 2016
Zika, Vaccines and Climate Change: Convergence of Right and Left Extremism Jan 28th 2016
How the GOP Is Killing Us With Ignorance Jan 21st 2016
Scalia's Views on Religious Neutrality Reveal He Is Neutral on Sanity Jan 4th 2016
Death of an Orca: What It Means for the GOP Dec 25th 2015
Intolerance Masked As Tolerance Is Still Intolerance Nov 18th 2015
Who Will Investigate the Investigators? Oct 26th 2015
The Devils of Darwin: Satan Takes on the Tea Party Oct 9th 2015
Our Embarrassing Man Crush on Pope Francis Sep 24th 2015
Selective Outrage: Hypocrisy at Its Worst Aug 29th 2015
Earth 2.0: Bad News for God Jul 24th 2015
Confederate Flags: A Day Late, A Dollar Short Jun 23rd 2015
Captain Pope on the Titanic Jun 19th 2015
Catching Dick: Not Why We Care About Weight Jun 5th 2015
Inflammatory Claims About Inflammation May 29th 2015
A Troubling Response to Brutality May 4th 2015
Confederate History Month: An Embarrassing Abomination Apr 23rd 2015
How "Legal to Discriminate" Became "Freedom and Liberty" Apr 4th 2015
We Are All Atheists Mar 18th 2015
Founding Fathers: We Are Not a Christian Nation Feb 26th 2015
The Conditional Sanctity of the Office of the President Jan 29th 2015
Pareidolia in Politics: The Face of Faith's Corrupting Influence Jan 27th 2015
Obama to Blame for Hurricanes, Disease -- and Everything Else Dec 22nd 2014
Soul Search: Why Pope Francis Is Barking Up the Wrong Tree Dec 18th 2014
The Tortured Logic of Bush and Cheney Dec 10th 2014
A War on Reason, Not on Christmas Dec 4th 2014
The Price of Failure and Rise of Extremism: How Democrats Blew It Nov 4th 2014
Vaccinations: An Epidemic of Misinformation Sep 25th 2014
Ignorance Kills Sep 20th 2014
Pray to Jesus -- Or Else Aug 16th 2014
Laughter as Nutrition Aug 13th 2014
Oh Mercy Me, I Do Declare, I Have the Vapors Jul 10th 2014
God and Morality: Never the Twain Shall Meet Jul 5th 2014
Unfit for Publication: How USA Today Got Everything Wrong Jun 19th 2014
The Supreme Court Rules That Christianity Is Not Christian May 6th 2014
Hidden Wonders: What Nature Teaches Us About Ourselves May 3rd 2014
Institutionalized Fraud: How Wall Street Survives on Predicting the Past Apr 24th 2014
The 'Fat But Fit' Fallacy Apr 16th 2014
Why Facts Matter: Science Is Not an Opinion Apr 9th 2014
God and Morality: Never the Twain Shall Meet Mar 15th 2014
Sulfur, Sulfur, Toil and Trouble Mar 4th 2014
Light Bulb Angst: Grow Up Jan 23rd 2014
Stone Age Rituals in Modern Society: Let's Move On Jan 20th 2014
Brain Freeze: Why Climate Deniers Flail in a Cold Snap Jan 8th 2014
The Dirty Little Secret About Human Intelligence Dec 16th 2013
Not Anywhere Close to Person of the Year: Why Time Magazine Is Wrong About Pope Francis Dec 15th 2013
God Created Gravity: Why the U.S. Can't Keep Pace With Slovenia Dec 7th 2013
The Faux Rage About a False War on Christmas Nov 27th 2013
When the Blame Game Goes Bad Nov 13th 2013
The Paralyzing Premise of Public Prayer Nov 7th 2013
He's Just Not That Into You: Why Humans Need to Get Over Themselves Oct 19th 2013
The GOP and the Whigs: Political Parties Are Not Forever Oct 14th 2013
When Radicalism Becomes Treasonous Oct 9th 2013
Nuclear Energy Survives Only on the Basis of Faulty Risk Assessment Sep 9th 2013
Science Is Not Religion Sep 5th 2013
A Duck Is a Duck; and a Muslim Prayer Is a Muslim Prayer Aug 13th 2013
We All Burn Because the GOP Wasted 30 Years Aug 9th 2013
Zealotry in the Doctor’s Office Jul 21st 2013
Scalia Scales New Heights of Absurdity and New Lows of Judicial Malfeasance Jun 27th 2013
Our Skewed Political Landscape Jun 20th 2013
When Will Conservatives Admit Defeat? May 31st 2013
Et Tu, Judas? Apr 19th 2013
God and Morality: Asking the Wrong Question Apr 9th 2013
China: Asia's Toothless Paper Tiger Apr 2nd 2013
Highways, Flyways and Personal Freedom Mar 29th 2013
Response to CPAC Extremism: A Liberal Manifesto Mar 19th 2013
Being Intelligent About Intelligence Feb 22nd 2013
Science and Religion: Never the Twain Shall Meet Feb 13th 2013
Telling God, "Ciao, I'm Out of Here" Feb 13th 2013
The Dangerous Myth of 'Fat but Fit' Feb 9th 2013
Tool Use, Culture and Human Hubris Feb 6th 2013
Big Brain Bravado Jan 31st 2013
Space Faces, Causality and the Origin of Religion Jan 30th 2013