Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Much to the complete and utter astonishment of many, the gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell who has devoted his entire life to fighting against discrimination has been publicly denounced as racist and transphobic by Fran Cowling, an officer of the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK. Peter has now gone very public about all this, but … Read more
I often trip up over some rather strange claims being promoted by people who are in reality both decent, reasonable, and intelligent. This week’s example comes from a piece written by Jerry Fogltance, a retired Air Force chaplain and lieutenant colonel. Within his column he writes … Atheists take pride in claiming that what they believe … Read more
The UK’s Council of Ex-Muslims has published a case study on the prevalence of Islamism within British Universities that has been written by Ibn Al Qalleb, and edited by the Iranian Human Rights activist Maryam Namazie. Much of what it contains documents recent events … On 23 March 2015, Maryam Namazie, Spokesperson of the Council of Ex-Muslims … Read more
You might, or might perhaps not be aware, but Richard Dawkins has had a stroke while at home on 5th February, has been in hospital, but is now back home. He has issued an update that includes a NECSS update .. Within the above update he describes his stroke and what he felt at the time, then describes … Read more
A rather frustrating reality for those not lucky enough to have access via a University account are the barriers that exist around many scientific papers. You might perhaps be looking into some topic and would be interested in reading a peer-reviewed paper, but then when you search, you find that it sits behind a paywall put up by … Read more
You might, or perhaps might not, be aware, but today (12th February) is Darwin day. This is an officially recognised day that is celebrated worldwide every 12th February, the day that Charles Darwin was born, and the aim is not simply to celebrate his contribution to our understanding about Evolution and hence our origins, but to … Read more