Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Researchers at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) have published a study that confirms that psychopathy is a distinct neuro-developmental sub-group of anti-social personality disorder (ASPD). Here is a quick summary … Objective To identify structural gray matter (GM) differences between persistent violent offenders who meet criteria for antisocial personality disorder and the syndrome of psychopathy (ASPD+P) … Read more
Whenever you see the word “quantum”, if the topic under discussion is not physics, you can ignore it. Well in this case the topic is indeed Physics. There is a controversial paper in Nature Physics, where some theorists claim that they can prove that wavefunctions — the entity that determines the probability of different outcomes of … Read more
The good news is that Obama has come out in favor of gay marriage. This is truly good news, not because Obama now supports it but rather because things have now moved forward sufficiently for this to be said by him in public as a campaign issue. We don’t have to go very far back … Read more
There is a prevailing belief that morality is rooted in religious belief and that those without such beliefs have no basis for morality. It is nonsense of course, but because such thinking is so common, it is important that we should examine such claims, and so today I’ll take you on a brief tour of … Read more
I blogged yesterday about the evidence presented by a BBC documentary that Cardinal Seán Brady, when tasked with investigating some child abuse, was given a list of other children being abused and did nothing about it. I did not expect to return to the topic so soon, and yet here I am again … why? Well, … Read more
I watched the BBC’s “This World show” last night regarding the complete moral failure of Cardinal Seán Brady. I knew this was coming, but thought that I would watch the program first before I commented on it so that I could that share my reaction to the details and not simply comment on reports of … Read more