Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The journal Public Understandings of Science, has posted a truly weird “scientific” paper that is basically an assertion that they found some scientists who don’t like Richard Dawkins. To be precise out of a total of 20,000 they managed to find 38 who did not, and it is the personal opinions of those 38 that is … Read more
You might perhaps be wondering what this drama is all about. For those in the know it all comes down to that one-man incarnation of religious eccentricity, Mr Ray Comfort. He is also rather famously known to some as “The Banana Man” due to a previous evangelist career highlight where on camera he produced a … Read more
Boing Boing reports that Jack Chick, the Father of the Satanic Panic has passed away at the age of 92. You might, or perhaps might not, be familiar with him. What can be said is that he was both a good comic artist and also a highly effective communicator, but was quite frankly way out … Read more
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
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
In the UK ITV is broadcasting “Exposure: Islam’s Non-Believers” tonight. The traditional penalty for becoming an ex-Muslim is death. While there are still roughly about 13 nations on the planet that have that penalty as part of their legal code, things are different in the UK. In theory, you can take on, practise, or discard … Read more