Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Before we get into what happened last Friday in Congress, and the crazy reaction it provoked, permit me to quickly set the stage for you. One of the first things that the US House does to initiate the proceedings for the day is to have a Chaplin make a public religious invocation. It’s a tradition … Read more
Accusing a bunch of high school drama students of being “demonic” and also in league with Satan, and evil, feels very much like the plot of some movie or or perhaps a play based in Salam in the 1600s. This however is what has just happened at Fannin County High School in Georgia. To heap multiple … Read more
Stick with me here, there is a surprising twist coming up a the end. In your eye you have rods and cones. These are terms used to describe specialised light-sensitive cells. Rods are sensitive to low light and so they will help you to see in very dim conditions. It is the cones that enable … Read more
I have come across what is perhaps one of the most jaw-dropping bits of news recently reported, and remember, given the current administration’s use of the signal app for sending war plans to random journalists, there is rather a lot of stiff competition running in the race to claim the “stupidity” crown. The Texas parents … Read more
Yes, Iowa really are drafting a law to ban something that does not actually exist – Chemtrails. High-flying aircraft leave long lasting condensation trails, and so fools have looked up for decades and concluded that those are all part of some nefarious plot to spray chemical agents on them. What are the various claims? There … Read more
Sociologist Philip Truscott of Southwest Baptist University has published a “scientific” paper titled “Rape, Suicide, and the Rise of Religious Nones“. Within it he argues that being non-religious makes you far more probably a rapist and also prone to suicide. Spoiler: Don’t panic, his paper is pure BS, and the “journal” he has published it in, … Read more