Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Today’s posting is a bit of fun. While some do take the following observations at face value as credible evidence that time travellers have turned up in the past, most people don’t. There is however a more serious point at the end as well. The essence of this posting is this. People have been spotting … Read more
Whenever I encountered somebody who explained that they are on a Gluten free diet (and it is common) then I have always assumed that they had a specific diagnosed reaction to Gluten and had adopted the diet for medical reasons. It turns out that this is not strictly the case for many people. There is … Read more
I first became aware of the latest bit of utter insanity that has been bubbling away inside the right-wing information bubble when a friend on Facebook posted this … Guys, my mom thinks Antifa is going to start a civil war on November 4th that will lead to power outages because her pastor told her … Read more
Canadian Braden Matejka narrowly escaped death in the Las Vegas shooting, and so his story along with many others became international news. Here he is briefly telling his story on CBC … He had a very very lucky escape and narrowly missed death by millimetres. Essentially the bullet grazed his skull. If he had been standing … Read more
Above are two pictures. One is labelled A and the other is labelled B. Please select the picture that has the largest crowd. Both are of course images of an inauguration crowd, so I think you can see what is actually being asked. People are being confronted with facts and are being asked to pick either … Read more
A local paper reports that Cary in North Carolina is going to host a conference of Flat Earth believers in Nov, and no doubt they will come flocking from all around the globe to attend. There are of course people who promote the idea, not because they actually believe, but simply for a laugh and … Read more
