Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The peer review journal Environmental Microbiology has a panel of knowledgeable subject matter experts who review and comment on articles that have been submitted, and, as might be expected, nestled among the comment extremes that run from “What the frack is this crap” through to “Great job, approved for publication” you find some true gems. … Read more
Courtesy of a blog posting from Professor Bruce M Hood, is the news that Hitler apparently joined the Mormon church in 1993. This is not the story of some poor bloke with the same name, but rather is fully certified proof that Adolf “lets-invade-Poland” Hitler was baptised into their fold… you can click on the … Read more
Michael Moore has posted $20,000 of his own money to bail Julian Assange and has offered all his IT facilities to keep Wikileaks rolling … why? He makes a very good case with points such as these … We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead. Just … Read more
Within his latest Slate article (Dec 13), Hitchens is gunning for Nixon and Kissinger … Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized, and excluded …his role as the only unindicted conspirator in the Nixon/Watergate gang, and since the exposure of his war crimes … Read more
I just came across an old article in the May edition of Scientific American by Steve Mirsky. Apparently Harris Interactive conducted an on-line survey in March regarding what folks in the US thought of President Obama, and (as you might expect) the results proved to be rather startling … for example, Steve reports … 40 … Read more
Jack of Kent, the famous legal blogger, had a brief (informal) telephone interview with his friend and fellow libel reform campaigner Mark Stephens as he was in a cab going to Wandsworth Prison to see his client Julian Assange, then blogged about it all. It makes fasinating reading … here are some extracts … Mark … Read more