Call to atheists

Call to atheists

As the media begin increasingly to focus on analyses of the US presidential candidate hopefuls, many people are now beginning to think about the consequences of the end of the Bush era. For researchers many potential changes loom — the new head of Britain's Medical Research Council, Leszek Borysiewicz, has already warned that the country's pre-eminent position in stem cell research is likely to...

American on-line atheists and psychological type

Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences (such as liberalism and athei...

What should we believe about atheists?

Catherine Caldwell-Harris provides a stimulating review of the psychological correlates of atheism. The broad conclusion is compelling evidence in support of the hypothesis that atheism results from natural variation along a continuum of belief (hypothesis 2 in my target article of this issue). I called this my ‘‘null hypothesis’’ because it just seems the most likely and least complicated or s...

A Call for a Backward Design to Knowledge Translation

Despite several calls to support evidence-informed policy-making, variations in uptake of evidence into policy persist. This editorial brings together and builds on previous Knowledge Translation (KT) frameworks and theories to present a simple, yet, holistic approach for promoting evidence-informed policies. The proposed conceptual framework is characterized by its impact-oriented approach and...