Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The term “Fox News Viewer” generally is a quip deployed to describe people who are completely decoupled from reality and instead live within a carefully crafted bubble of disinformation. Everybody knows this, apart from Fox News viewers, it is not exactly a state secret. What made recent headlines on April 4 were a couple of … Read more
You are probably aware that this happened … Some questioned it – How could that possibly happen, how could she get inside a secure TV studio and make such a protest live on air. The answer is that she worked there, and until recently fronted the news herself. She also recorded a separate clip explaining … Read more
Published within the British Journal of Developmental Psychology is a study that reveals that kids are prime targets for fake news. One word … “Yikes!”. Titled “Measuring adolescents’ beliefs in conspiracy theories: Development and validation of the Adolescent Conspiracy Beliefs Questionnaire” the open access paper reveals that a team of researchers created and then validated … Read more
A recently published study verifies that embracing one or more of the bizarre COVID Conspiracy beliefs leads to many negative life outcomes.
The news from Miami is that a Christian Private school has put in place a policy that mandates that any student that has been vaccinated must quarantine and stay at home for 30 days. The belief behind this stance is the claim that the vaccinated will shed and release something that will impact the health … Read more
Back in the days when I attended a pentecostal group as a teen, there was a guy who was deemed to have a bit of a problem, he was attracted to other guys. The church leaders kept it all lowkey and “assisted” by engaging the services of a gay conversion specialist. The net effect is … Read more