Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Guerrilla Skepticism is a team led by Susan Gerbic that consists of Wikipedia editors who have a specific focus on improving the quality of the available information. In fact they are quite open about what they are all about, and have their own website here where they invite anybody to join them, and describe their goal to … Read more
One Law for All (in conjunction with Southall Black Sisters and Fitnah) is conducting a survey as part of a research project investigating the nature and impact of segregation, specifically gender segregation, at universities in the United Kingdom. If you have experienced gender segregation at a university, please take a few moments to respond to … Read more
So the Opening Post within a Facebook group starts out with this … Now, if you happen to be familiar with islamic Apologetics, then you should instantly recognise this, because it is a rather old argument. In fact there is a very old story concerning Imam Abu Hanifah having a debate with an atheist. He turns … Read more
If you are active in the skeptical community, then you are perhaps aware of the guy who sold fake bomb detecters. These things turned out to be junk and contained nothing at all inside … yet this fraudster sold them to various governments, (Iraq spent more than $40m on 6,000 devices between 2008 and 2010), … Read more
Below is 10 year old Nujood Ali from Yemen, full of joy and life. The picture above was taken by Stephanie Sinclair in Yemen, 2010 and shows her on the day that she learned that she was being granted a divorce from her much older abuse husband. Very courageously, she fled him and took a taxi by herself to the … Read more
I jotted down a few notes yesterday about the one million dollar challenge, but that of course is not the only paranormal bounty out there, other skeptical groups will also offer you cash in exchange for proof of the paranormal. A very recent example comes from an article within the Prague Post in which they … Read more