Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Well-known skeptic Sharon Hill (famous enough to have her own Wikipedia page), of Doubtful News (go check it out later), has written a nice article in the Huffington Post about how individuals upon hearing that she is a skeptic will soon start telling her tales of amazing paranormal things and then promptly polish it off … Read more
Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International since 1972, has been a very strong advocate for the idea that gay Christians can simply pray their gayness away. Things has now changed, and if you will forgive the metphor, he has had a road to Demascus experience and seen the light. He has now closed the Exodus International and issued a … Read more
When there is something that is popular, others often attempt to hook into it and surf the crest of that so that some other agenda many then be promoted. Well … guess what, with the new Superman movie coming out the Guardian reports … Hollywood studio Warner Bros is targeting Christian audiences in the US with a … Read more
Joyce Arthur,a political activist for abortion rights and women’s rights, has a truly fabulous article that she wrote in some time ago that I’ve only just come across it. It is about what happens when those opposed to a woman’s right to choose are suddenly faced with a choice that they deny others. In 2000 she … Read more
Naveena Shine, (yes that really is her name), has attempted to go for 100 days without eating to prove that humans can “live on light”. Seriously! Yes indeed, she believes that it is possible for human beings to survive without food and so conducted what she described as an experiment to prove it. So how did it … Read more
Thomas L Friedman, the Pulitzer prize winning American journalist, columnist and author who writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times has a few things to say about Egypt, not from the comfort of his own plush office in that city, but on the ground in Egypt, because he went to find out what … Read more