“How can you tell when a politician is lying? When you see their lips move!”. Old old joke. And perhaps topical. Ben Goldacre calls Boris Johnson to task for the misuse of statistics. Goldacre goes on to state “…the contempt with which politicians hold evidence and statistics.”. Boris Johnson gets upset when he’s not allowed [...]
In my previous post Mediums – true, deluded or criminal? at http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2010/06/20/409.html I asked if those people who claim to be mediums and the like should be prosecuted for making claims that they cannot prove and for deliberately misleading and lying to people. So, thanks to a pointer from Michael Marshall versus ‘psychic’ Joe Power, [...]
Thanks, Pharyngula. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/03/trolling_for_jesus.php Basically, Pastor Chris Fox of Kendalls Baptist Church in New London, NC pretends to be an atheist with some pretty warped views on morality. He’s trying to give the impression that atheists have no morals. Well, his deception was discovered. I think that Pastor Chris Fox is the one with questionable morals. [...]
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
— Horace Bushnell
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