Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Politico reporter Dan Diamond has tweeted out the following, not because he agrees, but rather because it is quite frankly bizarre … Do you think Trump has strong moral character? · White evangelicals: 44%· Atheists: 18% pic.twitter.com/FAfFPoVeUI — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) October 16, 2016 I do truly grasp why some evangelicals are supporting Trump. In many … Read more
To anybody outside the UK, the observation that a majority of those voting went against what is in their best interests and voted for the UK to leave the European Union is quite puzzling. However, once you move beyond the initial emotional shock, you then discover that the generally accepted explanation offered by the media is … Read more
What Trump is all about is well known … His gross dishonesty in almost everything he says has been robustly established by the fact checkers again and again His xenophobia and racism The observation that he is a sexual predator – he said it and women have been coming forward to confirm it. This is a he … Read more
So some of the stories swilling around relate to yet more footage of Trump. A recent rather public whisper is that there are segments from recordings of The Apprentice where Trump was being Trump. The producer of the show recently commented on the latest revelations as follows … As a producer on seasons 1 & 2 of … Read more
I was tempted to skip writing about the Nobel Peace prize. Rather obviously my primary interest has been the three big Nobel Prizes (Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry) that I wrote up earl;lier on in the week. The “Peace” prize however does perhaps deserve some attention, specifically because the entire endeavour is at times (if I may … Read more
Back in December 2015 as many as 174 nations signed what is now known as the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, but that is simply ink on paper and is quite frankly meaningless in that it did not commit anybody to do anything. The far more important aspect is that it marked a beginning of a … Read more