Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
In the context of the question Homeopathy: trickery or treatment? – you know the right answer, or at least I do hope that you do, and so what is of more interest to us here is that Jonathan McCrea speaks to the world’s most famous skeptic, James Randi who is now 85, on his Irish NewsTalk radio … 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
A rather common claim made by different belief systems is that they not only hold the high moral ground but that they also have the ultimate incarnation of ethics. Associated with this is usually the seconds claim that beyond the boundary of their specific belief resides a wasteland of no ethics or morality but instead … Read more
Michael Hiltzik, the prize winning journalist and columnist, has a fabulous article in the LA Times entitled … “The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic“, you should check it out. He starts off with … Aaron Carroll today offers a graphic depiction of the toll of the anti-vaccination movement. (H/t: Kevin Drum.) It comes from a Council … Read more
Here is a picture that recently went viral on both Facebook and also twitter … It paints an utterly tragic picture and so it touches the heart. Upon finding it many then tag and forward it … the result – it goes viral. One slight flaw – it is fake and not at all what … Read more
“Criticising Islam” is now on offer for the very special price of FREE, this is a special 2 day offer so do grab a copy while it is free. Hey … “free” is indeed in my price zone. Where Can I get it? Click here – to go to the Amazon.com kindle store and get it … Read more