Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
There has been a new study that gives us a fascinating new insight into exercise. The researchers were asking themselves this key question – How effective are small, realistic changes in physical activity and sedentary behaviour on population-level mortality? But first, before we get into this, there is a rather important context for all of … Read more
Inside the megachurch theology that says God wants you rich — and the poor just need more faith. You might think that Jesus and today’s Evangelicals are all playing on the same team. However, it is a rather hard “no” on that one. If you are familiar with what Jesus both said and did, then … Read more
You can be fooled, I can be fooled, we can all be fooled. It is inevitable that at some point like me you also will have believed something and then later discovered it was not actually true at all. How did you then respond to that reveal? Like most you would have changed you mind … Read more
The title is no longer just an opinion, it is now an empirical fact that has been confirmed by researchers. Several researchers formed this hypothesis … “the political empowerment of Christian nationalist ideology in the form of politicians expressing Christian nationalist sentiments corresponds to physical attacks on religious minorities carried out by self-professing Christians.” They … Read more
Let’s make something clear up front, this article is not actually about Parachutes. There is something far more serious coming up, so stick with me here. I will however say that the parachute study is quite real. Within the British Medical Journal there is research paper titled “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma … Read more
This week I have three distinct climate updates … Let’s take them one by one. Oil giant ExxonMobile had very accurate predictions for climate change in 1970s If you dig a bit into the history of our modern understanding of climate change then one name that will pop up is James Hansen. In the1980s he … Read more