Beware of click-bait that is designed to hook into your emotions

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

Right now the book “Criticising Islam” is FREE on Amazon Kindle

“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

Magic Sexy words designed to befuddle are red flags that scream out “bullshit”

There is an old story about a candidate up for election to the US senate who would tour the rural areas in the south and deliver a redneck speech in which he would run down his opponent as follows … Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not … Read more

More rewards for proving the Paranormal

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

Detecting Bullshit – A quick refresher from Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan had a wonderful mind that was capable of cutting through all the noise and clearly communicating and inspiring millions. He may indeed be sadly missed, but his words and thoughts still echo loudly even today. If, and I confess it is possible, you are wondering … “Who?”, well OK here is a quick … Read more

John Lennox claims … “You can’t explain the universe without God”

A Muslim has been posting on Facebook some rather selective cherry-picked quotes from John Lennox’s Daily Mail article of 3rd Sept 2010. The fact that our Muslim friend did not attribute the source of his quotes and so by default implied they were his own is rather dishonest, but perhaps understandable because he was in fact … Read more