Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The enabler of Fake News is that humans respond to information at an emotional level. We might indeed criticise “them” for living inside an information bubble, but the truth is that we are all as individuals crafting echo chambers to one degree or another by selecting information that agrees with our preconceived views and resisting … Read more
Julia Belluz writes in Vox about the state of maternal healthcare in the US. The article entitled “California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth” contains the following graph that sums things up … Let me emphasise what this is telling you. Between the years 1990 and 2016, the numbers of women dying … Read more
Somebody at the Discovery Institute came across an old interview with Brian Josephson done as part of a CBS documentary. They are now highlighting it as “evidence” for Intelligent Design on the blog “Evolution News”. … He compares design in evolution to human creativity, and concedes that his ideas about ID may not be consistent with … Read more
Back in 2014 a geologist named Andrew Snelling who works for Answers in Genesis, the Young Earth Creationist organisation, formally applied to the National Park Service for a permit to remove rock samples from the Grand Canyon. You can find his actual permit application buried in a subsequent lawsuit that he made when his application was … Read more
The Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres is perhaps best known for one thing, the Paris Climate Agreement. In other words, in the long historical view she may actually be one of the most important humans alive today because she has potentially saved our species. In 2010, roughly about six months after the failure of COP15 in … Read more
John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is perhaps best known for his specific interest in the satellite remote sensing of global climate change. The climate change denial community love and adore him because he and several others are staunch critics of the climate models. He not only maintains the stance that they are … Read more