Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Wow … PZ of Pharyngula over at Science Blogs has gone on strike. There appears to be a lot of discontent with the way the Seed media is running the show. Many Bloggers have left … PZ now on strike … I wonder what comes next? Pharyngula Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a … Read more
At TAM-8 (The Amazing Meeting) in Las Vegas during July 2010, there was a truly amazing opportunity to meet some skeptic heroes. Going from Left to right you can see D.J. Grothe, Ken Frazier, Ray Hyman, James Randi and Paul Kurtz. There were of course many other fabulous folks there who also fall well inside … Read more
This I just must post … its truly outstanding. Crispian Jago has just posted an amazing periodic table of Irrational Nonsense. periodic-table-of-irrational-nonsense
Once, while standing around the water cooler with several friends, a colleague told us all the following true horror story: The wife of a friend who had been off shopping in Reading was rather astonished to find an elderly lady sitting inside her car when she returned back to it. Being sure that she had … Read more
Lets start with a skeptical quote for the day: In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth … Read more