Dawkins versus the Creationists in … The Greatest Show On Earth

No sadly this isn’t a WWE match set in at “Edgefield Federal Correction Institute”, where Dawkins uses his intellectual might to pile drive Kent Hovind – young earth creationist, conspiracy theorist and criminal – into the mat. The Greatest Show on Earth is in fact a fascinating new title from Prof. Richard Dawkins. It aims [...]

He Works in Magisterious Ways

One area in which the so-called “new atheists” differ from what I can only assume are called “old atheists” is in their views on the possibility of harmonious co-existence between religion and science. Dawkins, Hitchens and Myers, while acknowledging that religious people can understand science and scientists can believe in God, see religious faith as [...]

The Center for Inquiry – Check it out

The US based Center for Inquiry has the following mission statement on it’s about page: To oppose and supplant the mythological narratives of the past, and the dogmas of the present, the world needs an institution devoted to promoting science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. The Center for Inquiry is that institution. At [...]

The Spinal Trap

In April 2008, Simon Singh, author of the excellent Big Bang and Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial, wrote an article in the Guardian demonstrating the lack of evidence for the claims made by chiropractors. He pointed out that true chiropractic did not limit itself to helping back pain, but was in fact originally created as something of a panacea [...]

Pseudo Scientists Podcast

For those of you looking for something to listen to whilst on your commute, you may be interested in this podcast: http://www.youngausskeptics.com/category/podcast/ Called the Pseudo Scientists it’s run by the Young Australian Skeptics and covers topical subject with plenty of mirth.

Complementary and Alternative Regulation

The University of Central Lancashire, one of the numerous universities in David Colquhoun’sfiring line for their disregard of science in offering BScs in homeopathy and traditional Chinese medicine, has held a review of issues associated with teaching alternative medicine subjects. The report from this review has been published online here (pdf). The review came to a pleasing conclusion, [...]