Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Something dramatic has just happened, but there is considerable confusion as to what exactly is going on … the picture on the left is that that of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani with her son Sajjad at home. Why the confusion, well only a few days ago she was in Jail awaiting for her death sentence of … Read more
Now here is a truly fabulous example of how you “Do Science” … The Discover blogger known as Loom (who is better known to his friends as Carl Zimmer) has written about the NASA Arsenic based microbe paper. Now, instead of presenting you with his view, he did something far more scientific, he went out … Read more
Fantastic article in today”s Guardian by the Bad Science author, Dr Ben Goldacre. OK, I’ve been banging this drum before, but its important … I mean really important, not for somebody else, but for you and your future health, so pay attention … Ben starts out like this … Recently we have seen a large … Read more
Regardless of how you feel, not only is all this a complete wet dream for all the newspapers, but also something fundamental has been changed within the political landscape, stuffing the genie back into the bottle is simply not an option … so where are we today? Attacks and counter strikes MasterCard stopped payments to … Read more
Really fantastic news … a couple of months ago I blogged about the challenge being faced by the school systems in Louisiana … some creationist loons were attempting to have all references to evolution purged from school science text books. The defenders had at that time gained a good provisional decision, but faced another final … Read more
If you really are interested in a proper analysis of the recent announcement by NASA, then you should read the blog posting by Rosie Redfield … she quite rightly trashes it all … NASA’s shameful analysis of the alleged bacteria in the Mars meteorite made me very suspicious of their microbiology, an attitude that’s only … Read more