Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
To answer the question in the title we can of course speculate, offer an opinion, or even try a straw poll or our own. None of that is necessary now because, on March 31, 2022, Pew published a poll that gives us a fascinating insight. The title gives the game away, it is “Americans skeptical … Read more
I’m building up to a rather interesting question – what makes somebody unfit to testify? The twist in play here is that an argument is being made that simply holding a few unusual beliefs is sufficient. First, let’s play catchup. The name “Stormy Daniels” will be familiar. She became famous for being “friendly” with you … Read more
Over in East Tennessee a guy named Art Bohanan has created what he calls “The Human Remains Detector”. To demonstrate how it works he went with the media to an old cemetery in Knoxville and proceeded to find bones beneath his feet. This happened last Dec 2021. A local news outlet ran the story and … Read more
Published within the British Journal of Developmental Psychology is a study that reveals that kids are prime targets for fake news. One word … “Yikes!”. Titled “Measuring adolescents’ beliefs in conspiracy theories: Development and validation of the Adolescent Conspiracy Beliefs Questionnaire” the open access paper reveals that a team of researchers created and then validated … Read more
Religious labels such as “Catholic” or “Atheist” can fool us into thinking we truly understand the people behind such terms: we really don’t
Dr. Oz popped up to abuse a pre-print of a scientific paper purely for personal gain. His track record of bad advice is long established.