Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Last Wed, Nov 1, the Right Wing News website knows as 1819 News published a hit piece that outed F.L. ‘Bubba’ Copeland. He was an Alabama mayor and also a pastor. By blowing up his private life for no real legitimate news reason they in effect hounded him into self-destruction. Two days after the very … Read more
Richard Feynman tells the following story about the time when his wife Arline died. It was 1945. She was in her 20s and sadly had tuberculosis. They had only been married two years. Below is an extract from his book, Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman, describing what happened while he was working in Los Alamos … Read more
There are specific well-defined and also well-known steps that you can take to promote a healthy lifestyle. A new study appears to suggest that an additional one is “don’t drink soda”. You might perhaps be tempted to think that this is about sugar and that diet soda will be just fine. Apparently not. That also … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a strongly worded warming about a product knowns as “Miracle Mineral Solution” or MMS. Their guidance is simple – “Do not purchase or drink it”. This is the second warning they have issued. Why? It is not simply a scam run by a fraudster, but is a … Read more
I’ve come across a rather nice answer to a letter written within The Star, a paper that is part of the Canadian Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. The question submitted was as follows … How is one to conduct themselves at a funeral when one doesn’t practice the religion? I am a 55-year-old atheist. I know many … Read more
A couple of days ago Saul Vazquez, a Kentucky truck driver, passed an accident that looked really bad, so he took a picture (see above), posted it to Facebook, and advised all reading it to take care out there. It has been shared 13,295 times, and is also all over the media now. Why? Well, apparently he … Read more