Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
During the initial Republican debate last week the moderator asked the candidates for a show of hands of how many believe in human-caused climate change. This is what happened … None, not one, was prepared to back science. Mountains of very robust observational evidence and literally millions of scientists within every single nation state on … Read more
The passing of the cute blue bird and its replacement by the dark sinister black X logo is in so many ways symbolic of what Twitter has become. There exists an opinion within many minds that twitter has become a bit of a cesspit, but we need not rely upon just opinion. Non-profit Watch groups … Read more
Jennifer Meeks, wife of Arkansas Sate Rep Stephen Meeks, posted a “confession” on Facebook. It went viral and proved to be a tad embarrassing for her. She has since then deleted it and ducked. However, the internet is forever, and so here is a screen-grab of it … Just in case that font is a … Read more
Some words have very specific well understood meanings and some do not. For example if I told you that I liked coffee, then you would probably, if curious, ask for a bit more detail, “What kind of coffee?”. Rather obviously I might mean filtered, instant, or even that I grind special beans after they have … 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
According to a recent article within the Washington Post by David Byler the GOP is now being dominated by non-religious people … Wait … what … have all the Evangelicals abandoned them and all the Atheists, Agnostics, and Non-Religious have flocked to their ranks, is that really what is going on here? Hint: Nope. So … Read more