Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
What inspires people to promote weird religious claims? The generic essence of religious belief is that it consists of supernatural claims that have no evidence and so you embrace these ideas by faith, and not because they are actually true. Why does this happen? Humans generally don’t start with a blank page, but instead inherit … Read more
In the face of the overwhelming scientific evidence, a new international social movement called Extinction Rebellion has emerged. Their goal is zero carbon emissions by 2025, and that is just 7 years away. The strategy is not to simply ask or propose, but to actively engage in non-violent protest and disruption. Since the founding of … Read more
Twenty years ago back in 1998 an article was published in Nature in which climate scientists presented data that confirmed that the observed warming was unprecedented in at least six centuries… Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries This year those same scientists have published an article in Nature that admits … Read more
There are now two independent reports that confirm that Russia has weaponised social media and uses it on a massive scale to manipulate votes
The short summary is this – progress was made, but it is simply not enough to address the galloping pace of climate change. What has been agreed is not pointless, it does help, and yet which would you rather be, nearly saved or nearly drowned. Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, … Read more
Weird Religious belief has quite naturally gravitated towards that rather unique blend of right-wing politics and religion. It is that recipe that has incarnated and inspired intolerance, paranoia, corruption, greed, abuse, and a conscious and very deliberate desire to practise deceit. There are of course many people who are religious and don’t do any of … Read more
