Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Every September since 1991 the IgNobel awards are given out, and so we now have the 2024 awards. The what? The IgNobel a satire of the Nobel prize which is shortly coming up. However, the published research that gets an IgNobel is real research. Basically they go find the weirdest whackiest research paper and then … Read more
Here is this week’s selection of the fools from the past week. It emanates from a blend of religious Fundamentalism with right-wing politics
I should be able to make a couple of assumption here … Unfortunately I can’t. That because of the thing that really is abnormal – the superstitious religious belief that anybody who does not conform to their very narrow definitions of “normal” is somehow broken and needs to be fixed. I’m also deeply tired of … Read more
Here is this week’s selection of the fools from the past week. It emanates from a blend of religious Fundamentalism with right-wing politics
The title is no longer just an opinion, it is now an empirical fact that has been confirmed by researchers. Several researchers formed this hypothesis … “the political empowerment of Christian nationalist ideology in the form of politicians expressing Christian nationalist sentiments corresponds to physical attacks on religious minorities carried out by self-professing Christians.” They … Read more
Here is this week’s selection of the fools from the past week. It emanates from a blend of religious Fundamentalism with right-wing politics