A brief update: For the past several days now, I’ve been at the Toronto General Hospital, by the side of my sister whom has just had cancer-related surgery (synovial sarcoma on her lung). I’m pleased to say that, despite suffering from a bit of pain and nausea following the surgery, everything went well and [...]

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And just when I thought NBC’s Phenomenon was bad.
I don’t know how it slipped my radar, but A&E has recently premiered their new show Paranormal State, where a band of college kids get to light candles and pretend to do to science (or, at least, their version of it). Click the link above, if [...]

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Sir David King, the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, has had enough. So much so, in fact, that he’s laid a verbal smack-down against virtually everyone within his line of sight. The issue? Hysteria.
King argues that the nonsense spewed out by a hysterical media has overridden science in the UK (though [...]

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You don’t have to be a regular watcher of The View (and I sure am not) to have heard tales of Sherri Shepherd’s utter stupidity.
Only a couple months ago, she admitted that she didn’t know the Earth is round. Her excuse? “I’m a mother and don’t have time to pay attention to such [...]

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Imagine traveling somewhere in the Pacific, only to have your boat sink, leaving you cast away on a deserted island with no help in sight. You survive the first few days on recovered rations. Once you run out, you’re truly on your own. You hunt tooth and nail for food. You [...]

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Ms. Gibbons, a British schoolteacher who was unfortunately swept up in a Sudanese controversy involving mammalian nomenclature has, thankfully, gotten the hell out of Sudan, lash-free.
Not much is left to be said; I’m absolutely relieved that Ms. Gibbons is back home and safe, although it’s still frustrating to read that she has been successfully [...]

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Erol Karaaslan of Kuzey Publications, which had published the Turkish edition of Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion has (surprise surprise) been accused of “inciting hatred and enmity.” He could face six to twelve months in prison if found guilty.
I assume no one’s shocked.
Turkey has never, I think, had the reputation of being a [...]

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Sadly, though unsurprisingly, the situation in Sudan involving a teacher arrested for “Inciting hatred and insulting religion” by allowing her class to name a teddy bear “Muhammad” has gotten considerably worse.

Some angrily denounced the teacher, but others smiled as they beat drums and burned newspapers with Gibbons’ picture, waving swords and clubs and green banners, [...]

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