Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This is an old story from last January, but oh so nice … and yes I only just came across it … apparently it takes me almost nine months to catch up with stories in the Telegraph. I’m highlighting it because I thought that you might enjoy seeing a racist plonker get his comeuppance. Tommy Robinson (apparently … Read more
Over at Pharyngula, PZ writes about the brain drain and how bad things are in the US … The brain drain is beginning. Nearly 20% of American scientists would like to get out of this country. New data compiled by a coalition of top scientific and medical research groups show that a large majority of scientists … Read more
Irish politics can be quite frankly insane at times, for example it is the only nation on the planet that has managed to pack a war of independence and a civil war into a six month period. Ah but there is an even better example, they have a blasphemy law that was introduced not too … Read more
Robert Mugabe, the self-appointed president of Zimbabwe has threatened to behead Citizens for the “crime” of being gay. The HuffPo reports … Speaking on Tuesday at a rally at the Aerodrome Grounds in Mutare, Mugabe described LGBT people as “worse than pigs, goats and birds” and threatened to behead them, according to NewsDay. “If you take men … Read more
Why oh why have vast swathes of the UK population gone quite frankly nuts? As an acknowledgement of this new reality, the BBC is offering wall-to-wall coverage of what is essentially no news at all. OK, this is hard to type, so lets get it out … I confess, I’m a republican … (shudders, did … Read more
George Zimmerman thinks that God planned for him to shoot and kill Trayvon Martin … … and apparently the jury agreed because he walked free from a Florida courtroom late on Saturday after a jury acquitted the neighbourhood watch leader of murdering an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in a case that played into the national debates about … Read more