Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Homeopathy is having a very bad week. Given the observation that there is no credible evidence that verifies that it actually works, then this is not a surprise. This week there have been two Homeopathy items that have popped up in the news cycle. Let’s briefly cover each in turn. The UK’s National Health Service is … Read more
The term “Cambridge Analytica” has popped up and so you might perhaps be wondering what this is all about. We have a few reliable sources we can use to dig into this a bit. I’m going to strive to keep this short and simple. 50 Million Facebook profiles Essentially the claim is that 50 million … Read more
When faced with the various claims asserted by those that believe you can’t help but conclude that it is not as such a test of faith but is instead a gullibility test. Below are three items that popped up[ in the news cycle during the past seven days. What perhaps is rather scary is that … Read more
The New York Times has a great article regarding the perils of simply ignoring what the evidence-based science community is telling you. The opening example they have concerns the now infamous 1952 killer fog that happened in London. The Great Smog of London In December of 1952 there was a severe air-pollution event. At the … Read more
Both Fox News and also Alex Jones have a rather well-known reputation for being promoters of fiction as fact. If either of them are your only news sources, or are simply your primary news sources then it is distinctly probably that your grasp upon reality and facts is, and will continue to be, rather elusive. … Read more
A new study published within Nature Communications on 13th March shows that there appears to be a robust relationship between a warming Arctic and more severe winter weather further south. Warm Arctic episodes linked with increased frequency of extreme winter weather in the United States Weather is variable and that is driven by both forced … Read more