Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The title of the Blog posting in Today’s Guardian here is “Should we debunk astrologers more respectfully?” … Ah, a challenging question indeed … <pauses for less than a second to consider it> … OK, the short answer is … “No, its complete Bollocks”. Practitioners of this gibberish are conning folks out of money by … Read more
I’ve noticed this doing the rounds within the skeptic echo-chamber … and well … its my turn, so here is Ben Goldacre (author of the Bad Science blog and also, least you wonder, for his day job he works full time as a doctor, so he knowns what he is talking about) … enjoy. If … Read more
You do of course appreciate that Astrology is complete bullshit … at least I hope you do. Yes, OK a few folks read what has been word-crafted for their sign in the papers, but nobody actually truly believes there is anything real going on. Ah well strictly speaking, thats not quite true, there are indeed … Read more
If you have any interest in being exposed to new ideas and new thinking from the leading thinkers of our age, then you should check out the Edge. First a bit of background. The Edge Foundation, Inc. (www.edge.org) is an organization of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality … Read more
As no doubt you are aware, there have been various predictions regarding climate change. What is now being observed is that those predictions are wrong … because what we are actually seeing is a far faster rate of change. David Biello wrote about this in Scientific American yesterday … Climate change is happening faster than … Read more
University of Queensland in Australia say they’ve discovered a new type of entanglement that extends, not through space, but through time. As reported in MIT’s Technology Review … Entanglement is the strange quantum phenomenon in which two or more particles become so deeply linked that they share the same existence. That leads to some counterintuitive … Read more