Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
From the, “Are they fracking insane” school comes the astonishing news that Astrology is a science, or at least so some claim. You simply do not need to be a rocket scientist to work it out, yet apparently the Bombay high court can’t, and has apparently departed reality and taken flight off into la-la land … Read more
The question, “Could the Net become self-aware?” is one that I would normally dismiss quite quickly. If your source for good science is simply ripping off the plot from Terminator, then god help us if you ever moved beyond that and watched the Matrix. The question has indeed come up (well of course it has, … Read more
A copy of BBC Horizon is up on YouTube that you should check out if interested in science. This is the one in which Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded – from the theory that man-made … Read more
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
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
Creationists, the folks who truly believe that evolution is a myth and that instead some magic man in the sky magically poofed life into existence, have an argument known as “Irreducible complexity”. Basically its an argument that pretends to be science … but its not. Time and time again, it has been debunked, yet the … Read more