The Internet is now bringing folks who would never normally meet into direct contact with each other, it is as if a marketplace for ideas has been opened up. In that context the sane rational ideas will bump up against the kooky crazy stuff. Well, I have a few examples … purely to amuse you. These all come from my Facebook interactions with Muslims in the past couple of days, and yes, …Click to read more…
Winston Hide is the associate professor of bioinformatics and computational biology in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of …Click to read more…
Now this one today is a bit of a departure for me, it’s not a rant but is instead a …Click to read more…
Today’s bit of religious insanity comes from a church pastor in Beaverton, Oregon. He is suing a mother and daughter …Click to read more…
Nice article in the Telegraph today …Tom Chivers, their assistant comment editor points out that the folks who are stongly …Click to read more…
The BBC took five 9/11 Truthers on a road trip and confronted them with the facts. They were each told …Click to read more…
Researchers at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) have published a study that confirms that psychopathy is a distinct neuro-developmental …Click to read more…
Whenever you see the word “quantum”, if the topic under discussion is not physics, you can ignore it. Well in …Click to read more…
The good news is that Obama has come out in favor of gay marriage. This is truly good news, not …Click to read more…
A Bill to protect freedom of speech and reform the libel laws is to be introduced into Parliament, it was …Click to read more…
Robert Fisk highlights in today’s Independent, the quite frankly appalling human rights abuses that appears to be culturally endemic in …Click to read more…
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