Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This is a posting about a recent Louisiana legal ruling that is quite frankly bizarre. It concerns a push against the victims of sexual abuse and involves shutting them out of the legal process. Children who are Victims of sexual abuse were thrown a lifeline when various states passed the Child Victims Act. Here for … Read more
We have one hell of a crazy storm coming up. However, before we go there, let’s first briefly cover a few basics. If I was to ask you where the boundary between Europe and Asia is, then I suspect that many of you would easily nail it by pointing out that the city of Istanbul … Read more
The South Carolina Senator, Lindsey Graham, has apparently gotten into the game of granting Chick-fil-A lots of free advertising … A full transcript of the above clip is this … The bottom line is Conservatives are tolerant … we are …you know kind of get out of your business, you leave it alone, I leave … Read more
There is the “Wait, he just tweeted what” category, and then there is a whole new advanced level beyond it that North Dakota Rep Brandon Prichard has decided is his own personal domain of religiously inspired lunacy. All who are active on twitter will most probably at some point tweet something crassly stupid. When others … Read more
Let’s make something clear up front, this article is not actually about Parachutes. There is something far more serious coming up, so stick with me here. I will however say that the parachute study is quite real. Within the British Medical Journal there is research paper titled “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma … Read more
There are a couple of items to cover within this posting, but first, I just can’t resist briefly commenting upon one utterly weird development that has happened in the last few months. We now have an electric car CEO literally mocking the half of the population that actually understands that climate change is real. So … Read more