Your average man-in-the-street denier does not have any understanding of the language of science, let alone the methods of science. As a consequence, he does not have the wherewithal to…
When same sex marriage was first mooted in federal parliament, a Christian couple, Nick and Sarah Jensen, said they would divorce in protest. They planned to have a civil divorce,…
One of the most common instances of fallacious logic1 used by deniers is stating that, as carbon dioxide comprises only four molecules out of every ten thousand (400 parts per…
In the psychology of human behaviour, denialism is a person’s choice to deny reality, as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth. Denialism is an essentially irrational action that withholds the validation of…
The huge number of climate change deniers in parliament1 has clearly demonstrated that a large number of our parliamentarians are not up to the task of representing us and making…
Often you will hear climate change deniers whine that the Earth hasn’t warmed since 1998. Just a quick look at the breaking of temperature records would seem to indicate this…
Now I have heard everything. The bizarre exhortation from the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, for governments to keep “out of the friendship business and out of the bedroom”….