Is Myers–Briggs scientific?
The Myers-Briggs personality test is very popular. What is the science behind this, is it actually credible or simply pseudoscientific?
BBC reporting on Climate Change
In the not too recent past the BBC has managed to make a complete hash of their climate change reporting. Last August 2017 Al Gore was in the UK promoting the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth”. The BBC quite rightly interviewed him on the BBC’s Radio 4 flagship program “Today”, a slot that literally millions tune into … Read more
Weird Religious News from the past week
When faced with many of the items of weird religious news, the most immediate and obvious is to go for the idea that this is stupidity incarnate. When it comes to Trump himself most of those who engage directly with him more or less confirm that he is indeed quite stupid, but that’s not the … Read more
Majority of UK population have no religious belief
The UK’s National Center for Social Research have just issued a press release with the latest numbers on 7th September. These numbers reflect data gathered in 2017. As data is processed they tend to dribble out insights and so this latest press release is part of that process. What are the latest highlights? Well yes, I … Read more
Warming Oceans are changing rainfall patterns
On a planet where we are increasing the amount of greenhouse gases, both the atmosphere and also the ocean become warmer. The rather obvious consequence is of course the the melting of ice and rising sea level, but other things also happen. Tropical Cyclones, (also known as Hurricanes) which are driven by warm oceans become … Read more
Censorship of Science – Purging National Park Documents
Elizabeth Shogren writes in Reveal on 10th Sept about the censorship of National Park foundation documents. Apparently they contained naughty words that should not be committed to paper. To be specific it involved the specific term “Climate Change”. Under the title “National park officials were told climate change was ‘sensitive.’ So they removed it from … Read more