To call creationists ignorant is of course an understatement. However, lots of people are ignorant; nobody can know everything as knowledge these days is too diverse and too deep for…
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[This was put together almost a decade ago, initially as a half hour public presentation for the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, so could not be…
Just about everybody knows the ‘beetrooter’ story of Barnaby Joyce and Vikki Campion now that it has been plastered over the newspapers for months1 and has been on television, including with…
Over the last few days, I have had a few, um, discussions with creationists, as much as that is possible with such dogmatic people. They keep trying to tell me…
I cannot begin to imagine what the first people who saw Uluru thought about it, nor can I remember reading what the first Europeans to see it thought. I have…
Current acting Prime Minister, Mathias Cormann, has stated on Sky News (where else?) that “Carbon Capture and Storage is a proven technology which helps reduce global greenhouse gas emissions”1. Carbon…
You will often hear anti-vaccination people complain about the dangers of vaccinations. Some still believe the bogus assertion by Andrew Wakefield that Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccinations cause autism, despite this being…
When scientists say they have undertaken a meta-analysis1, it means that they have looked at the raw data from several other studies and extracted what is required from it to…
In conversations with climate change deniers, I have had it explained to me that all the climate scientists in the world are on the bandwagon to keep themselves in cushy…
