Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Living a rather isolated lifestyle from the rest of us are the Amish community. They are a religious group generally located in Pennsylvania as a result of an 18th century migration, and numbers at roughly 220,000 individuals. Natural News (yes “that” Natural News) has been using them to assert a claim in the context of the observation that … Read more
A term that you might have come across is “Integrative Medicine”, and if so then you might perhaps be wondering what this actually is. Google it and you find that the Wikipedia article sums it up quite distinctly like this … Integrative medicine, which is also called integrated medicine and integrative health in the United Kingdom,[1] combines alternative medicine with evidence-based medicine. Practitioners claim that … Read more
So the news … as reported via Sky and many others is this … Atheist Numbers Surge In England And Wales Research says that the Anglican and Catholic churches are failing to hold on to those brought up as Christians. According to new research, around 48.5% of those surveyed in 2015 said they had no … Read more
The UK’s Lancet no less has published a paper in which they conclude that very low salt intake is bad for you … Associations of urinary sodium excretion with cardiovascular events in individuals with and without hypertension: a pooled analysis of data from four studies (Side note: sorry, they have a paywall there) We searched … Read more
The phrase “Kill them all and let God sort them out.” sounds medieval, irrational, and utterly barbaric, but it should because its origins is of course medieval and is firmly rooted within a time when Christianity was not as tame as it is today. The phrase itself is reputed to have come from the lips of Arnaud Amaury, a Cistercian abbot who … Read more
Now here is a good news story doing the rounds in the media at the moment, for example The New York Times reports .. University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism … and so you might feel this is strange and that it makes no sense at all. If you made the observations that Atheism is … Read more
