Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
University of Queensland in Australia say they’ve discovered a new type of entanglement that extends, not through space, but through time. As reported in MIT’s Technology Review … Entanglement is the strange quantum phenomenon in which two or more particles become so deeply linked that they share the same existence. That leads to some counterintuitive … Read more
We have known for some time, but now have solid proof, that the Vatican ordered the Irish Bishops to cover-up clerical abuse and not to report it to the police … Now what makes this interesting, is that its not historical, its recent. The 1997 letter, obtained by RTE, and signed by the late Archbishop … 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
There is a national census in Ireland, and it takes place in a couple of months … on Sunday 10th April to be precise. And, Atheist Ireland has a plea for you … Be Honest in the Irish Census on Sunday 10 April. Think before you tick your answer to the religion question, and give … Read more
Frank Schaeffer, son of the famous evangelical, appears here being interviewed by Rachel Maddow about the poll that discovered that 1 in 3 of NJ Conservatives truly believe that Obama is the Anti-Christ. We apparently have a sub-culture of belief that rejects facts and embraces beyond-crazy. To be quite frank, this is a complete social … Read more
About six months ago new evidence came to light that drinking coffee may help prevent diabetes (you can read about that here). Past studies had suggested that regular coffee drinking may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, it was not new then, so to verify they fed either water or coffee to a group … Read more