The Death and resurrection of The Thinking Atheist – #‎GodHatesFacts‬

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The Thinking Atheist is a radio podcast that you can tune into via details you will find on their website here. As many do, they have (or is that had, or perhaps still have … :-) ) a Facebook page to reach out to fans. Death of their Facebook Page and Personal Accounts Then this … Read more

Robert De Niro Claim: ‘there is a link between vaccines and autism’

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So once again the topic of vaccines and autism pops up and the media is running with it because somebody famous has said something utterly daft. To be fair, media outlets do often balance things, for example the UKs Telegraph has the story and does underline that his claim is not factual. Let’s cut to the actual text within … Read more

Hijacking Bill Nye

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Rumours started flying that Bill Nye was going to debate Sara Palin on the topic of climate change. For example Breitbart ran the story … Sarah Palin is set to participate in a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. in May following the nationwide screening of the fact-based climate change documentary Climate Hustle. … Palin will reportedly appear … Read more

Breakthrough Starshot – Can we really get to Alpha Centauri in just 20 years?

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So the news is that a very ambitious interstellar space mission to get to Alpha Centauri in just 20 years has been proposed and is being jointly promoted by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Professor Stephen Hawking, and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. It sounded so far fetched that upon first hearing it I had to check the calendar and verify it … Read more

A New greatly extended tree of life has been published

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What has become increasingly realised is that there is rather a lot of biological dark matter that we know simply nothing about at all and so the publication of a new tree of life (last Monday) that reveals quite a dramatically new picture of life is consequence of further insights. What has been happening is that a lot of new information was … Read more

#Brexit Urban Legends: Cabbages vs Gettysburg Address

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There is an old urban legend, and I really do mean ‘old’ because it goes back to the 1940s. It pops up on a regular basis in social media and contains a compassion between the number of words within some well-respected prose and a supposed directive concerning the selling of cabbages. It usually reads something like this … Read more