This is excellent. A Venn diagram showing the various irrational nonsenses and the magisteria they inhabit; quite a few overlapping!
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2013
The Royal Institution is in financial difficulties and intends to sell its historic HQ building. Sign the e-petition here to save the building:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2013
I was perusing the Discovery Magazine blogs and came across an article from Nov 2012 by Razib Khan which seeks to describe some of the tensions experienced between religion and science:
Within the framework of Western civilisation, past endeavours at seeking knowledge have, in large part, been motivated and instigated through religious inspiration. However, the religious increasingly did not like what was being found, and their early attempts to smother the truth were heavy handed, unjust and brutal. But these prohibitions on seeking and disseminating knowledge on the true nature of things were ultimately doomed to failure as the methodology for discovering truth matured into what we call science. Religion, today, has no part to play in the search for truth, be they of a scientific nature or of a moral nature.
Khan’s blog is quite interesting as it piques my interest in human origin, so I intend to spend a bit of time there catching up on all of his articles.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2013
A presentation by Jerry Coyne, author of “Why evolution is true”, explaining why religion is not compatible with science:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2013
Oh dear. Paul Broun is a US Congressman and is also a member of the House of Representative’s Committee on Science And Technology. At the Sportsman’s Banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Georgia, he describes himself as a scientist and declares that the Earth is young. He’s a Christian, and I would call him a Young Earth Creationist.
The problem, of course, is that science shows that Broun’s conjectures and conclusions are wrong. But he’s playing to the gallery. He panders to them. The scary thing is if he believes in that drivel.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
QualiaSoup’s short but clear overview of evolution and the attempts of misrepresentation by the religious:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
DC’s Improbable Science details the rather strange false claim from London Chiropractor on their UCL endorsement:
It must be said, though, that some chiropractors are abandoning the bogus subluxation pseudoscientific explanations and moving towards a more rational and beneficial method of treatment, so I wouldn’t want to tar all chiropractors with the same brush.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Great article by Steven Novella on the weaknesses and misunderstandings of “Traditional Chinese Medicine”:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Donald Prothero has got this spot on regarding the increase in junk programmes on supposedly science/factual TV channels.
Subjectively I did notice this trend but wondered if I was misperceiving. I gave up on the History Channel years ago (I don’t even know if the word “History” has any meaning to them), but recently I felt pain with junk appearing on the Discovery Channel and the National geographic Channel. Prothero does a stand up job in putting some objective data around this.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012