Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
My title might indeed have invoked a few eye-rolls with the mixture of cargo-cult pseudoscience, all carefully wrapped up with a religious woo bow tie, and then encapsulated with a mention of the CIA, but hold fire on that, because there is something real in play here. So what have we got and where does … Read more
Pro-Trump activist Candace Owens (pictured above) will often register on the BS detector because of some of the deeply wild and totally whacky stuff that she comes out with. While it can usually be ignored, every now and then she will demonstrate her skill as a master promoter of raw nonsense, and so it warrants … Read more
So this piece of utterly bizarre weirdness popped up … Yes, they really do indeed mean “Trump”, not some other devout individual who just happens to be unfortunately stuck with the same name. This is the same Trump, who behind closed doors says stuff like the following when faced with pastors clamouring to lay hands … Read more
For those pressed for time here is the TL;DR; (Too Long; Didn’t read) version – Prof Hotez is a public hero, Elon, Rogan, and especially RFK Jnr are ignorant assholes. Vaccines work really well and have transformed humanity. OK, if you are still with me, then let’s get into it. Robert Kennedy Jnr Joe Rogan … Read more
Pastor Blake Bergstrom of One Church in Georgia made the truly outrageous claim that there is a law in Colorado that allows parents to “murder a baby” seven days after it’s born. He added to that by also claiming that in California they are making a law that would allow parents to kill their baby … Read more
We all know that misinformation and disinformation abounds and is currently running rampant. Thankfully there are also some very useful resources that can really help: To be specific, I mean the fact-checkers. Well-known examples of organizations that are wholly and completely focused on fact-checking include … FactCheck.org PolitiFact Snopes etc… There are of course many … Read more