Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
There are stories now circulating in the media regarding a very dramatic ice melt it Greenland during the past week. As reported by the BBC … Scientists said the “unprecedented” melting took place over a larger area than has been detected in three decades of satellite observation. Melting even occurred at Greenland’s coldest and highest … Read more
It sounds weird … really weird … to claim that non-believers actually do believe and have simply suppressed that belief, but that is exactly what Mr Craig is asserting in his latest podcast – “does reason lead to atheism or theism“. I’ve come across this before many times and once even engaged in a rather … Read more
There has been a bit of buzz regarding these terms, so I feel it may be appropriate to write down my own thoughts on the matter. By doing so others might indeed chip in with points that I have failed to consider and so I will then learn something new. Atheist First, lets start with … Read more
Tempting as it might be to write some notes on #TAM2012, I find that many others have done a far better job than I could ever aspire to achieve, so instead of inflicting my rather limited babbling upon you, I’ll simply point out some that I really liked. Ah but also with one rather obvious … Read more
Yes, it is almost Olympic time, so obviously I have no idea what could have possibly inspired a team of researchers led by Dr Carl Heneghan of Oxford’s centre for evidence-based medicine to look into the claims made for sports related products. The BMJ has their study and it is entitled “Mythbusting sports and exercise products“. … Read more
There are a lot of reports circulating in Facebook groups and also many Islamic blogs regarding a claim that thousands of Muslims have been slaughtered in Burma and that the world remains silent about it all. Pictures such as that shown here are common. This comes with some text that usually reads … “50 thousand … Read more