Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Thinking a specific way about things can render you to being susceptible to falling down the conspiracy rabbit hole. This has been revealed by an interesting little paper that has recently been published. It reveals a connection between specific types of religious beliefs and conspiracy thinking. Titled “Christ, Country, and Conspiracies? Christian Nationalism, Biblical Literalism, … Read more
This past week Hemant Mehta flagged up yet another dubious miracle claim … Here is a transcript of what self-appointed “global impact evangelist” Nathan French claimed during his live streaming event last week … … and one lady came because God was growing legs out. You know, sometimes people have misaligned spines, or one leg just … Read more
Self appointed “prophet” Hank Kunneman, who is famous for “predicting” a Trump win in 2020 and now doubles down on the “stolen election” lie to maintain his credibility, has a well-established reputation for offering up some truly wild stuff. Here is Hemant’s tweet with Hank’s recent rather unique take on Climate Change … Here is … Read more
You will encounter people who sincerely and very deeply assure you that something that is very obviously not correct is a fact. You don’t need to think very hard for examples. Here are a couple of very obvious ones: The objective of this posting is not to have a go at “them”, nor is it … Read more
There is a prevailing thought that Atheists tend to be smarter than religious people. Is this just a belief based upon anecdotal observations or is it actually true? To put that question another way, I used to be religious, today I’m not. Does that imply that I have have become a lot smarter? There does … Read more
There are of course people out there who do have extensive flying experience, and could indeed give it a go if necessary. Let’s pop them to one side for now, because this is a question for everybody else. Yes, the question is literally the old Hollywood plot trope – You are on a commercial flight. … Read more