Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
In 2003 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed (pictured here) went missing from her home in Warrington, then six months later her body was found in the River Kent in Cumbria. Today her parents, Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, have been declared guilty by the jury at Chester Crown Court. Mr Justice Roderick Evans said they would both serve a minimum of … Read more
Abdi Jeylani Marshale (pictured here) was a very popular comedian in Solamia who has been tragically murdered by some religious thugs. He was well-known for his parodies of Islamist militants, so you require no psychic powers whatsoever to guess who did this or what their motivation was. Officially nobody knows who did this, but … Read more
The following list is the complete collection of scientifically controlled, double-blind studies which have conclusively demonstrated the efficacy of homeopathy.
So is Michael Phelps the greatest Olympian of all time? Well the problem here is how you define the term “Greatest”. Now please do not misunderstand where I am going with this, because last night, he did something truly amazing. With the help of his teammates in the 4x200m freestyle, he won his 19th Olympic … Read more
Twitter is still finding its feet within our culture and so there tends to be a lot of weird reactions that pop up. We have already seen the Twitter joke trial of Paul Chambers, a chap who when faced with an airport delay due to lack of snow tweeted, “Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. … Read more
This one truly falls into the WTF category. The rather nice looking couple (Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson pictured here) wished to get married, so they put all the arrangement in place to do so at the First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs in Mississippi. Well unfortunately things did not pan out. As reported in the Guardian … The … Read more