Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Today’s UK Guardian has a truly tragic story by Rachel Williams. The numbers now available reveal a horrendous rise of 47% in ‘honor’ crimes within the UK. Incidentally, that name ‘honor’ is not at all appropriate, what honor is there in any of this; dispensing violence and intimidation using your own hands upon your own … Read more
Now here is a YouTube clip you might enjoy … Kate Smurthwaite, a stand-up comic and political activist, finds herself in an audience full of folks touting belief and have exactly zero evidence, so she spells it out for them. The punch line comes at the end (its only a 76 second clip) …
Has a Higgs boson been found, in fact will it ever be found? … No, we don’t know yet, but we soon might. Ian Sample writes in today’s UK Guardian that staff at the LHC have arranged a special seminar on Tuesday 13 December at which the latest results in the search for the Higgs … Read more
I’ve a few Burzynski quackery updates for you. First is the news that Rhys Morgan, the 17-year-old skeptical blogger, has an article published in today’s UK Guardian (now that is impressive). He writes about the details behind the Burzynski saga and then finishes with a very good quote that nails it … “[Plaintiffs] cannot, by simply … Read more
Andy Lewis of Quackometer wrote a great article here exposing how the Burzynski clinic are scamming parents desperate for a cure for critically ill children … in that article he raised some very valid concerns … Burzynski is a ‘lone genius’. Great scientific medical cures rarely stem from single individuals. They are the result of … Read more
Seth over at The Thinking Atheist has created a new visual translations of Cal Sagan’s famous words. The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of our home planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles). Earth is seen as a tiny … Read more