Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Yesterday I blogged about the UKip satire twitter account, @UKipWeather, as a truly fabalous response to the rather weird claim made by David Silvester, that recent storms and floods were caused by the legalisation of gay marriage. Well guess what .. I was wrong, apparently Gay Marriage really does cause flooding. Dean Burnett has laid out conclusive … Read more
David Silvester, a Ukip councillor for Henley-on-Thames, is now rather famous because he recently blamed recent storms and floods on the legalisation of gay marriage in Britain in a letter to the Henley Standard. This of course attracted media interest, and so when interviewed by BBC Radio Berkshire, he restated these potty beliefs. So what now, what should one do … Read more
It is often fun to dip in and see what this week’s daftest Islamic Fatwa is. You can always be sure that whenever you find a truly odd one and think “Nothing could possibly be weirder than this” then inevitably some cleric will pop up the very next week and prove you quite wrong about … Read more
In the UK there is a 31st January deadline for filing your tax return with HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs – a non-ministerial department of the UK Government responsible for the collection of taxes), and as you might imagine, some miss the deadline and file late along with an excuse in the hope that … Read more
The Guardian asked a group of scientists to submit their favourite jokes, and yes, there were a few rather lame ones in the mix, but worry not, because I’ve distilled the brew down to the top 10 best, so here they are … (and each is followed by the name of the learned individual who … Read more
The picture below shows you one chap’s attempt at some Christmas decorations, and yes, that is just a prank, he is not really falling, that’s a dummy (put up by a dummy perhaps) … With a hat tip to Tim Kirby for sharing … here it is … The chap who did this (Greg), also … Read more