Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
I have two stories for you today that relate to Cosmos, the fabulous science based TV show hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson – one is fake and is simply satire, but the other is quite real. So here there are … Story 1 – Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Cosmos Causes 27 Local School Children Demonic Possession Story 2 … Read more
Eating lots of chocolate has been proven to make you a lot smarter. Really? Yep, the details are all in a study published within the New England Journal of Medicine and is entitled Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates. Read and you soon discover that the findings of the author, Dr. Franz H. Messerli, a cardiologist and … Read more
Guerrilla Skepticism is a team led by Susan Gerbic that consists of Wikipedia editors who have a specific focus on improving the quality of the available information. In fact they are quite open about what they are all about, and have their own website here where they invite anybody to join them, and describe their goal to … Read more
Are some truly Immune to Facts? The short answer is “yes”, so if this is TLDR, then you can stop reading now. So here is the story. A rather strange claim was posted by a Muslim girl regarding the expansion of the earth. The context is that the Qu’ran says the that Allah expanded the earth (79:30) … Read more
I had a conversation today with a chap who is totally sure that the illuminate are real and that they control everything. He starts off by suggesting “Russia is an illuminati’s puppet just like America and other countries.“. Now, you do know that the word “illuminati” is a big bold red flag that announces “here … Read more
There are some whom you simply have to applaud for their decency, common sense and willingness to strive to make the world a truly better place. One such example of that is Jimmy Wales, the chap who founded and promotes Wikipedia (Oh and yes, that back there rather ironically is a link to his own … Read more