Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Just how daft can beliefs get, can they become, not just outrageously bizarre, but complete decoupled from reality, and yet still assert a claim of “truth”? Yes, they can and often do. I must confess to an excessive degree of bemusement derived from a scan of Ken Ham’s folly, perhaps better known to some as … Read more
Today lets have a bit of fun … learning the bible from Penn and Teller … (yes OK, it is from 2006, but hey, it still stands) … So there you have it then … oh, you want more? Well yes, that was just part 1, so here is part 2 … I suppose you … Read more
The debate on the proposed Gay Marriage bill in the UK has reached the House of Lords, and as might be expected, the unelected Bishops have a few thoughts on it all. Side note, yes we have people who are part of our law-making process on the sole basis that they have an imaginary friend … Read more
These days it is politically correct in some quarters to not criticise beliefs, perhaps because doing so it too close to racist xenophobia. It is of course true that extreme right wing groups such as the EDL (English Defence League in the UK) tap into the fear instilled within the minds of many by events such as … Read more
If you just want the list, its at the end, so feel free to skip directly there. In today’s UK Guardian, David Colquhoun, a pharmacologist at UCL who also blogs about pseudoscience and quackery at dcscience.net, has a fabulous article that discusses all the heath-related scams we are exposed to each and every day. If time permits, I do highly … Read more
The beating heart of modern science is skepticism, or to be more precise, Scientific Skepticism. This essentially means that when presented with a claim, is it not simply accepted, no matter who said it or how profound it might be, but instead you challenge the idea and ask if there is verifiable evidence that confirms it. This … Read more