There’s a clear inversely proportional relation between gun control laws and gun deaths. I’d just like to point out that correlation is not causation.
Category Skepticism and Science
All religion is political and tries to impose itself on the rest of society, so there’s no actual difference between “Islamism” and “Islam”. It’s just politically correct crap.
So Jerry doesn’t like it — well, to each his own.
There are three types of inconvenient facts to the “Western imperialism” hypothesis:
Two Spanish politicians asked the European Parliament to recognise the made-up illness known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity:
The initiative has been strongly opposed by ridiculous pseudofeminists who don’t understand that prostitution is not sex slavery.
If you thought the bashing Richard Dawkins fashion when bloggers don’t have anything of value to say was over, think again.
The Commission has appointed Colombian academic Daniel Mejía as one of it’s members. This is a red flag, and here’s why:
It’s good to see that pesky spirituality nonsense being exposed in such a classy fashion.
The study, the biggest of its kind, wanted to know if gluten-free food is healthier than regular food. Turns out, it isn’t:
This is not just a bad sign for free speech, but it is a bad precedent for science — what will ‘The Lancet’ do when very picky churchgoers choose to be offended with the conclusions of one of their papers? Judging by this bad decision, those will also be removed, lest they offend the illiterate.
This is what science has found out about same sex parenting.
All marriages should be contracts between two or more consenting adults of any combination of sexes — now, *that* is equality!
They have really crazy people in Egypt:
When a young woman decides to have an aesthetic surgery, she is seeking to increase her sex appeal, and she is convinced that the surgery will lead her to have more of it. She can argue that it is a self-esteem issue or that it is because she can improve her status, but basically, if the result of the surgery does not lead to an increase in her sex appeal she would not have it.
A six year old boy with diphtheria was admitted to intensive care at a hospital. It is the first recorded case in Spain since 1987. Vaccination is a kid’s right, not their parents’.
You can’t expect someone to say they’re sorry when they don’t even entertain the possibility of being wrong in the first place.
After this, anyone who believes that vegetarianism and veganism are excellent for health should reconsider their position and look for more sound arguments… if there’s any.
You better take notice, whoever you are, dude in charge of the New Horizons mission, which will get to Pluto…
I was asked what had happened to him, so in order to give an answer I had to do a little research. What I found is not pretty: