Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
To win $1 Million all you need to do is to prove to the James Randi Educational Foundation that Homeopathy actually works. That sounds like easy money, because obviously it works … surely it must, it can’t be a con. Think about it now, almost all pharmacies sell Homeopath remedies, in fact the UK has … Read more
Every year I take time off to make a trek to a local clinic for a flu shot (OK, so this year was different, I did honestly intend to go, I just never got around to it). So why do I keep doing this most years (when I remember) , why can’t I just do … Read more
From the, “Are they fracking insane” school comes the astonishing news that Astrology is a science, or at least so some claim. You simply do not need to be a rocket scientist to work it out, yet apparently the Bombay high court can’t, and has apparently departed reality and taken flight off into la-la land … Read more
The BBC reports the utterly barbaric death of a 14 year old girl in Bangladesh. Can you possibly guess why? Yep, no surprise or shock, its what we expect. Just one single word sums it all up … “islam”. (Yes, I’ve not used upper-case, I refuse to do so) She was accused of having an … Read more
The 10:23 Challenge is a follow-up to the ‘overdose’ protest staged by the 10:23 Campaign in 2010. International protesters from more than 10 countries, and more than 23 cities will gather for over the weekend of February 5-6 2011, to make the simple statement: Homeopathy – There’s Nothing In It. The challenge will culminate on … Read more
That old book of fables, the bible claims, “Bodily exercise profiteth little”, science has now yielded further information that clearly demonstrates this is simply not true at all. A new study shows that one year of moderate physical exercise can increase the size of the brain’s hippocampus in older adults, leading to an improvement in … Read more