Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
An old one-liner runs like this … I don’t plan to be immortal because of what I wrote or did, but instead simply by continuing to live on in my apartment. So far its all going according to plan. Ageing is of course inevitable, and that’s perhaps what makes the one-liner funny. How it pans … Read more
Bubbling away in the background is a crazy belief regarding DNA The idea is this – every time a woman has sex, some of the DNA from that guy is infused into her. Then later, when she has a kid, the DNA from all her previous partners is passed on to the kid. That’s your … Read more
Last April 16, the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended a press conference that was for a new CDC report on Autism. During it he made statements that were not just wrong, but also deeply offensive and totally crazy. As a bit of background, RFK Jnr has a long history of … Read more
Before we get into the details of the latest discovery, and for that I will be including insights directly from the discovery team themselves, I’ll first give you a bit of background context to explain why the bar is so very high for such claims – basically, we have been here before and have been … Read more
Early versions of AI are here and these instances are becoming very widely available. Familiar examples include ChatGPT and Copilot. Ah but wait, those are all just one specific category of AI. As I’m sure you appreciate, the scope for using it is actually vast and includes a great deal more… Literally anything involving vast … Read more
So what has the newly installed Secretary of Health and Human Services been up to? If only the answer to that was dull and boring, but alas as a renowned anti-vaccine and whacky conspiracy theorist, that is unfortunately not the case. “wild whacky stuff” is really not what anybody ever wants to hear from the … Read more