Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Pavanpreet Ahmed has a petition you should consider signing, it reads … My mother was murdered when I was seven-years-old. She was lured to India from the UK thinking she was going to a family wedding and then killed by hit men ordered by my dad and grandma. They had her murdered because she had asked for … Read more
The Toronto Star has a fabulous article that I really like all about James Randi … here are a couple of snippets extracted from that article … “He saw me as a mentalist — that is, a magician with apparent ESP powers,” Randi says. “I think (he) knew I was a faker, but he wrote … Read more
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
Are some truly Immune to Facts? The short answer is “yes”, so if this is TLDR, then you can stop reading now. So here is the story. A rather strange claim was posted by a Muslim girl regarding the expansion of the earth. The context is that the Qu’ran says the that Allah expanded the earth (79:30) … Read more
For some reason Pat Robertson just keeps popping up. He has a remarkable gift for coming out with some truly weird and wonderfully whacky stuff that leaves you perhaps wondering, “Nah, he just can’t get any weirder” … and yet give him a few weeks and sure enough, up he pops to robustly verify that … Read more
I’ve come across a very interesting blog posting written by an Ex-Muslim blogger who (for rather obvious reasons) writes anonymously. She describes herself as … “a victim of both religious-based violence at the hands of my own family and the crushing Western war machine in my homeland“, and has some fascinating insights about what it … Read more