I was inspired to start writing for two reasons:
1. I became a mother, and discovered that pregnancy, childbirth and parenting are areas rife with dangerous woo;
2. The strong strain of anti-theism in the skeptic community is a) overly dismissive of people who believe in a deity or maintain a religious identity and b) counterproductive to getting society at large to adopt scientific skepticism, with detrimental effects for humanity.
One last item I want to address before I start blogging for real. A lot of mommy blogs and forums and such like to say that they provide support, not judgment, before they go on to bash anyone who doesn't mirror their choices back to them. Well, this isn't one of those blogs. I don't approve of "to each their own" in cases where the science is clear, and I don't approve of judgment where the science isn't. There will be no mollycoddling here.
1. I became a mother, and discovered that pregnancy, childbirth and parenting are areas rife with dangerous woo;
2. The strong strain of anti-theism in the skeptic community is a) overly dismissive of people who believe in a deity or maintain a religious identity and b) counterproductive to getting society at large to adopt scientific skepticism, with detrimental effects for humanity.
One last item I want to address before I start blogging for real. A lot of mommy blogs and forums and such like to say that they provide support, not judgment, before they go on to bash anyone who doesn't mirror their choices back to them. Well, this isn't one of those blogs. I don't approve of "to each their own" in cases where the science is clear, and I don't approve of judgment where the science isn't. There will be no mollycoddling here.
