Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The UK Parliament’s cross-party Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee published its final report on Disinformation and ‘fake news’ on Monday of this week, 18th February 2019. It is Titled: Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report While generic in nature regarding the issue of Fake News, it is rather damming regarding specific organisations such as … Read more
The internet recently lit up with the exciting announcement that there was a new cure for all cancer. The alpha source for all of this is an article within The Jerusalem Post … here to be precise on 28th Jan… A CURE FOR CANCER? ISRAELI SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FOUND ONE “Our results are consistent and … Read more
The TL;DR: summary is no, the supposed Gay Conversion Therapy is all BS. Why am I writing about this now? Basically this has just happened … A prominent “conversion therapy” advocate, David Matheson, has come out as gay after spending what he said were decades of his life entrenched in homophobia. Matheson was a practitioner … Read more
The UK’s new report on vaccines not only highlights the current status and benefits, but also flags up the misinformation.
Last October about 1,200 cinemas in the US screened the movie “The Trump Prophecy“. This is a religious propaganda movie in which a supposed prophecy by retired firefighter, Mark Taylor, is promoted. The claim is that he was told by God back in 2011 that Donald Trump would be elected president of the United States because Trump … Read more
The war against the hoax claim of a link between vaccines and autism continues.