Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Where this latest “scientific” claim comes from is a conservative “news” site and it is indeed truly weird stuff and quite silly, and yes those air quotes around a couple of words there are well-deserved. Anyway, without any further ado, let’s jump in. The posting by a chap named Matt Barber opens as follows:- The Big Bang … Read more
Pat Boone, yes the singer not somebody with a similar name, feels that Saturday night live went too far with a recent parody and he would like to see a blasphemy law put in place to prosecute them for “Blasphemy”. This happened a few days ago on the April 22, 2016 broadcast of Fox News Radio’s The … Read more
Channel 4 recently aired a programme that was designed to reflect the results of a comprehensive survey that they commissioned, and as might be expected, there have been complaints. It is perhaps inevitable because some are permanently ready to be offended if a specific belief garners any form of criticism, and labels are soon rapidly … Read more
Last Saturday morning, university lecturer Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, a teacher within the English Department, was hacked to death by Islamist fanatics as he left his home and walked towards the bus station to go to work. The UKs Guardian reports .. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for hacking to death a university professor in Bangladesh for “calling to atheism”. The … Read more
I suspect that most of you reading this already know the answer to the question and might perhaps be surprised that I am asking it. So why am I asking it? Well basically because there are competing voices, some of which do argue for quite different answers and then when you ponder over why, you find … Read more
A couple of weeks ago in Dhaka, Bangladesh law student Nazimuddin Samad (pictured above), 28, was walking down a busy street near Jagannath University where he studied when suddenly he was surrounded by a gang of religious thugs who had been waiting specifically for him. They then proceeded to hack at his head with a machete, then when he fell, shot him with a pistol … Read more