Final Presentation : Scientific Skepticism
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015 Posted in Astronomy, Conspiracy Theories, Education, General, General Science, Philosophy | No Comments »Hi all, The 14th and final presentation is now available on YouTube. It's on the topic of Scientific Skepticism. Please watch it here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j48onNWXRI. I am also giving away my latest book entirely for free online. Please download a copy and ...
Special Pleading
Saturday, October 10th, 2015 Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Creationism, Education, General, General Science, Philosophy | No Comments »Hi all, Lecture 11 has just been posted. Get it while it's hot :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G57S1wOqt4Q
Skeptical Heresies #9
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General Science, Health | No Comments »9. Skepticism is abused by conspiracy theories I'm beginning to wonder why I called this series "Skeptical Heresies", instead of something more descriptive like "Major Challenges Within Skepticism". Anyway... This post is about the fact that Skepticism has been kidnapped and forced ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 3
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General, General Science | No Comments »Environmental issues came to the front of everyone's mind in 2008 - right up until the credit crunch began to bite. And it may well turn out that the credit crunch was just the catalyst required to get people really ...
Conspiracy theories
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Creationism, General | 2 Comments »I've been thinking about exactly how a conspiracy theory starts up and I think I can explain it by continuing the story from a few days ago about the murder trial. Let's extend that analogy a little bit. The judge hears ...
Put your name to it
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General | No Comments »I've come up with a way to stop all this squabbling about contentious issues. It's simple - we agree to differ. But it's better than that - I've just finished implementing a petition system, modified from a WordPress plugin by ...
LHC Warm Up
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 Posted in Conspiracy Theories, General Science | No Comments »Tomorrow, Wednesday 10th September 2008, is a momentous day. At some point, if all goes well, scientists will pass a beam of protons for the first time completely round the brand new LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN, near Geneva. ...
Climate resistance, holidays
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories | 3 Comments »I'm off on holiday in a few hours, expected back late on Sunday night (31st August). I'm not expecting to add any more posts until Monday 1st September. Just in the mean time, I thought I'd say something to the folks ...
