Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
David Martin writes over in the Huff Po an article entitled “What Falls Between Agnostic and Atheist?” within which he is pondering what is the correct label that he should utilise to describe himself. It’s interesting to pause and consider it because it gives me an excuse to mull over the use of such labels. … Read more
If you happen to have a twitter account, then how do you decide who you will stalk follow? It can only ever be a subjective personal preference, and so when Science publishes a list of the Top 50 science stars on Twitter, I can’t help but ponder the thought – “how precisely do you measure … Read more
It’s always interesting to examine some of these claims when they pop up. People believe, I get that, but how can people truly believe in the absence of any really objective independently verifiable evidence? The answer is that they truly think that they do have evidence, and so we have an example of exactly this … Read more
The presentation of the annual Ig Nobel awards happened last night. The what? It’s basically a fun parody of the Nobel Prizes that are given each year to ten unusual or utterly pointless trivial achievements in scientific research, the stuff that makes you wonder “Why did they do that?”, and it’s usually fun because some truly whacky stuff can indeed … Read more
This is a story that I have heard before, not as something that really happened, but rather as an Urban Legend (a story that I was told was a true story, but for which there was no actual evidence that it had ever actually happened in reality). Well now it has. About a week ago … Read more
This is simply hilarious and is indeed a lesson in people not really understating the consequences of their actions. The Friendly Atheist blogs about it all and starts by setting the scene as follows … In January of 2013, World Changers of Florida, Inc. held Bible distributions at a number of public high schools in Orange County, … Read more