Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
For some reason Pat Robertson just keeps popping up. He has a remarkable gift for coming out with some truly weird and wonderfully whacky stuff that leaves you perhaps wondering, “Nah, he just can’t get any weirder” … and yet give him a few weeks and sure enough, up he pops to robustly verify that … Read more
Brian Palmer has a great article over in slate all about the deployment of Reiki and reflexology as cancer cures. He writes … Most treatments at U.S. cancer centers are evidence-based and cutting-edge. In recent years, however, some of our great temples of healing have begun to dabble in the unscientific and the prescientific. Integrative care centers … Read more
Claim: Westboro Baptist church plans to picket the funeral of their founder Fred Phelps Status: False … the Twitter account @MargieJPhelps once really did belong to the daughter of the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., but no, the tweets were created by @Grampscramps as satire If you had previously seen the claim, then you might indeed have been tempted … Read more
I’m sure you are familiar with “Cosmos”, but just in case you don’t know, it’s a fantastic TV show that covers over the weeks a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. The original series was done back in the 1980’s by Carl Sagan, and now … Read more
As you might, or perhaps might not, be aware, the BBC runs a program called “Free Speech” in which current affairs are discussed such an unemployment, immigration, gay rights etc… The format is one that involves going out to different venues within different cities around the UK and directly engaging with the public. In a … Read more
I’ve alway bought into the idea that saturated fat was really bad and should be avoided, or at least consumed in moderation. The thought was that this was the bad guy in our diet and if consumed to excess would result in heart disease. It now appears that I was wrong about this. The New York … Read more