Daft Claim of the Week: “Christians not free to say ‘God heals’ have no religious freedom in UK”

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In Today’s UK telegraph, Brendan O’Neill rants about a bunch of Christians being told to not make outrageous fraudulent claims, because doing so infringes upon their religious freedom. We have a special scientific word that accurately describes that stance, and that word is “Bullshit” …let me explain and fill you in on all the details. An organization in Bath … Read more

Top five regrets of the dying

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The UK’s Guardian has a story that claims to list the “Top five regrets of the dying“. The background is that Bronnie Ware, a palliative nurse based in Australia who counselled the dying in their last days, has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. OK, I know you are … Read more

NASA spacecraft reveals new observations of interstellar matter

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Now this all hit my … “Oh-thats-Cool” … button. You know of course that the earth has a magnetic field around it, right? And that we are protected from the solar wind, a stream of energetic charged particles emanating from the Sun, by this magnetic field because it deflects most of the charged particles. Did … Read more

Boycott Elsevier

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There comes a time when enough is quite frankly enough. Elsevier’s business practices demand a response … why? They charge exorbitantly high prices for their journals. They sell journals in very large “bundles,” so libraries must buy a large set with many unwanted journals, or none at all. Elsevier thus makes huge profits by exploiting … Read more

Islamic Fly Science!!! – Yep, more lunacy apparently from a Saudi University

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There is a science experiment currently doing the rounds at the moment. The reaction to it can be summed up as follows Muslims: “Yea, proof that the Islam is truth” Everybody else: “You have got to be kidding, this is not science” OK, some details, the very brief paper starts out with the a quote from some … Read more

Claim: “The Second Law of Thermodynamics disproves Evolution!!” – Nope.

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I’ve been advised that … “evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics (entropy always increases)“. Yep, somebody played that card, it came in the first comment on yesterday’s posting. The initial questions to perhaps ask include: – How many Thermodynamic laws are there? – Please describe the first law of Thermodynamics. If they do not … Read more