Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Andrew Brown, a journalist, writer, and editor of the belief section of the Guardian‘s Comment is Free, has had what can best be described as a bit of a rant in his Monday column. He devotes his entire scribbling output to a moan about Richard Dawkins pointing out the lunacy of some beliefs … On Sunday afternoon he was at … Read more
The MARS One Publicity bandwagon is rolling on, this is the Dutch effort to establish a colony on Mars by 2023. It is a one way trip and apparently anybody can apply. I’ve blogged about them before both last January and also June 2012. Now, before you get too excited and rush out to sign up, you … Read more
Glen Beck is at it again … oh and least you not reside in the US and are wondering “who?”, well lets just say that he used to have a TV show on Fox News between 2009-2011 (does that tell you all you need to know about his credibility?) Anyway, I guess he is perhaps best … Read more
25 year old Gareth Williams has become the first person with measles to die in the latest Swansea outbreak. So why in the 21st century, an age of highly effective vaccines, do we now once again have an outbreak of a very preventable highly infectious disease? It is all down to one man, Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced Doctor who was struck … Read more
Jamy Ian Swiss uses the term “The Honest Liar” to describe himself, so what exactly is he on about? Well, the term is wholly appropriate and accurate because he is in fact a world renowned sleight of hand performer who specializes in close-up card magic, in other words his full-time career is to fool you. The deal is that … Read more
There exists a complete gobshite in Burma called Wirathu. This lunatic is a Buddhist monk who has been inciting, almost single handedly, a rising tide of violence … The saffron-robed 45-year-old regularly shares his hate-filled rants through DVD and social media, in which he warns against Muslims who “target innocent young Burmese girls and rape … Read more