What’s popular on the internet? Disliking things. Also, lists of things. So in that spirit, here is my list of those who earned the largest amount of dislike from me as a skeptic in 2009. The frauds, the true believers, the complete and utter manic anti-science spazmos. It’s been an interesting and eventful year. Simon Singh’s […]
Archive for the ‘Alister Fuller’ Category
The lame and bizarre justification for opposing condom use typically put forward by the Catholic Church is that it promotes promiscuity, as if non-marital sex is inherently and self evidently a bad thing, so bad it is worth rallying against even if you’re not involved or even at all experienced. Setting aside the shameful and […]
Despite my undeniable charm, wit and rugged good looks, I’ve never had much luck winning ‘the other side’ over to the skeptical point of view on the usual topics (such as alternative medicine, new age spirituality, religion, conspiracy theories, UFOs, etc). It doesn’t surprise me, there are a number of obvious reasons why I haven’t […]
I smoke. I do. It’s easily the least rational thing that I do, but I do it. I don’t make excuses for it, quitting would be very hard but not impossible. I don’t intend to do it forever, but for the time being I have no intention to stop. What can I say? I enjoy […]
Is there such a thing as absolute truth? Although it probably doesn’t matter too much either way, I’m inclined to think there is. We may not know some, most, or even any of it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Is it absolutely true that Napoleon once lived? Maybe it is, because maybe there […]
Hey everyone, yes I’m still alive. I got health insurance for the first time around a year ago when I started a new full time job, it’s just the basic cheap(ish) young persons package that covers the usual ambulance, hospital, dental and so on. I’m not exactly well known as a fitness fanatic (although I […]
During the course of my working week, I am often the unfortunate recipient of some balls-out stupid emails. You know the kind, stories that almost definitely never happened, jokes that would make a six year old cringe. And sometimes I get quotes. Quotes that are supposed to be inspiring or memorable, but are mostly uninteresting […]
More than once the argument has been directed towards me that, on balance, science has done more harm than good for our species and the planet as a whole. The main points of this argument seem fairly reasonable on the surface — without science and technology we wouldn’t have nuclear weapons and guns and anthrax and rubber […]
