Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
If you are plugged into the skeptical community then you might have become aware of the talk given by science journalist John Horgan at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) last weekend. It was (I’ll be polite) rather controversial. Others used different terms, for example Orac refers to is as a “self-congratulatory wank” After the … Read more
This is quite frankly hilarious … Mike Webb, a conservative candidate for the United States Congress, believes in full accountability, and so he tries to engage directly himself with the public. So far it is not going too well for him, because while attempting to share a screenshot on Facebook in order to win some daft argument regarding finding … Read more
There is clearly a trend … January 2016 was the warmest January ever recorded. Then February happened and that blew away the January records. This was all then quickly followed by new records for March, and now April. The latest update comes from the numbers released by NASA over the weekend and so now the … Read more
So this tale rather astonished me. The Shropshire Star reports … Non-church pupil told he can’t travel on Telford school bus A family say they are unable to get their son on a council-run school bus because he does not go to church. Chad Millington, whose 12-year-old son is a pupil at Holy Trinity Academy in … Read more
If you have ever spent more than 2 minutes on social media then you will have discovered that there are people out there who are not simply wrong, but also demonstrate a complete immunity to little things like facts. Absurd notions prevail that range from medical quackery being promoted as the best, and science (the … Read more
A couple of days ago I was writing about why the latest evolutionary psychological observations suggest the inevitable demise and decline of both Christianity and also Islam. I now see that the UK’s Independent has run a similar story … however … this is how they describe it … Religion could die out as world’s … Read more