Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The UK government announced yesterday on 3rd July the intent to ban Gay conversion therapy. Along with that announcement, which is part of their LGBT road map, they also published the results of a comprehensive survey that has enabled them to make informed decisions. The Survey Itself You can find the full survey results here. … Read more
More and more my weekly positing of weird religious news is focusing upon US politics. It has perhaps been a running joke to suggest that the current administration view the Handmaids Tale as a policy guidebook. The joke works to some degree because of the mounting evidence that religious weirdness rests at the heart of … Read more
You might have perhaps observed headlines such as these popping up this week … Evening Standard … Religiously observant people live longer than atheists, study finds Independent … Religious people live four years longer than atheists, study finds etc… So what is the story here, what did this study that they refer to actually do, and did … Read more
Yes, the title is a play on words, because the actual story here is that Climate Scientist Kate Marvel has launched Scientific American’s new Climate Science column … I suppose I should begin by introducing myself. My name is Kate Marvel, and I’m a climate scientist at Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for … Read more
On 29th May, Pew released the results of a poll of European Christians that dug into what the term “Christian” actually meant to them and how it manifested in their lives. You can find a PDF of the full report here. (168 pages) You can also find a Pew summary here. Who Paid Pew to … Read more
Now that the dust has settled a little and the media frenzy has died down, I’d like to focus on it all by examining a few of the claims that have been tossed around within the twitter maelstrom. People tweet racist stuff all the time, so why all the focus? It is different for various … Read more