Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Last April 16, the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended a press conference that was for a new CDC report on Autism. During it he made statements that were not just wrong, but also deeply offensive and totally crazy. As a bit of background, RFK Jnr has a long history of … Read more
Before we get into the details of the latest discovery, and for that I will be including insights directly from the discovery team themselves, I’ll first give you a bit of background context to explain why the bar is so very high for such claims – basically, we have been here before and have been … Read more
Early versions of AI are here and these instances are becoming very widely available. Familiar examples include ChatGPT and Copilot. Ah but wait, those are all just one specific category of AI. As I’m sure you appreciate, the scope for using it is actually vast and includes a great deal more… Literally anything involving vast … Read more
So what has the newly installed Secretary of Health and Human Services been up to? If only the answer to that was dull and boring, but alas as a renowned anti-vaccine and whacky conspiracy theorist, that is unfortunately not the case. “wild whacky stuff” is really not what anybody ever wants to hear from the … Read more
Yes that headline is real, but before we get into it, I first have a few thoughts. In normal times you might occasionally come across something that motivates you to go WTF! or similar. These days are not normal times, and so such encounters are sadly becoming not just daily but almost hourly now. I … Read more
Where I’m going to go here is to talk about a new psychological study that reveals something truly fascinating. However, before we get into it, let’s first start with something rather important. You can be fooled, I can be fooled, we can all be conned and manipulated. Why? Basically because we humans are awash with … Read more