Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The “inspiration” for this posting is a segment via Fox & Friends. As we all know, Fox News is a “reliable” source of information, hence their segment on July 1 that covered a visit by co-host Ainsley Earhardt caught my eye. Side note: Yes, the air quotes there are doing rather a lot of heavy lifting … Read more
Where I’m going to go here is to talk about a new psychological study that reveals something truly fascinating. However, before we get into it, let’s first start with something rather important. You can be fooled, I can be fooled, we can all be conned and manipulated. Why? Basically because we humans are awash with … Read more
Doing your own research sounds like a wonderful idea, but what does it actually mean? For some it might indeed suggest that you go and consult all the available information written by the very best subject matter experts and then you distill that down into a really good understanding of what the best most reliable … Read more
Pictured above is 3-year-old Arely Naomi Proctor. She was tortured to death by her grandfather, uncle, and mother. Convinced that she had demons, they inflicted a truly horrendous 12 hour religious ritual that would supposedly free her, but they ended up slaughtering her in a gruesome and hideous manner. Arely died on Sept. 24, 2021, … Read more
The Wellness industry has taken a new turn and is going in a very weird direction. Before we get into the details and explain why, let’s first cover a few basics. The word “Wellness” sounds positive, but lurking just under the glimmering surface resides a bubbling cauldron of hideous slime and muck. Ingest this at … Read more
Thinking a specific way about things can render you to being susceptible to falling down the conspiracy rabbit hole. This has been revealed by an interesting little paper that has recently been published. It reveals a connection between specific types of religious beliefs and conspiracy thinking. Titled “Christ, Country, and Conspiracies? Christian Nationalism, Biblical Literalism, … Read more