by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 20, 2017 | Pseudoscience, Science, Science Denial
“Ancient Aliens” Is Everything That’s Wrong With America I don’t know if you knew, but the Hebrews didn’t spend forty years in the Sinai after the Exodus because they’d incurred the wrath of God. And they didn’t leave that...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 16, 2017 | Characters on the Right, Climate Change & Global Warming, Right Wing Lunacy, Science Denial
According to RationalWiki…Steve Stefan Molyneux (born 1966) …is a British Irish-Canadian political activist, amateur philosopher and Internet pundit. Since 2005, Molyneux is the host of Freedomain Radio,[2] a podcast where he discusses his philosophy,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 28, 2017 | Climate Change & Global Warming
A vlogger champion defender of science Peter Hatfield (potholer54) does an excellent job of analyzing Stefan Molyneux’s case of Confirmation...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 25, 2017 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Global Warming Denial
Listening to Trump talk about and around the idea of “clean coal” I am blown away by the tsunami of ignorance, idiocy, and DISINFORMATION that surges out of his “McDonald’s hole“. Trump thinks “clean coal” is just coal...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 24, 2017 | Science
A good video I stumbled across that illustrates why I love and find myself intrigued with...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 22, 2017 | • Politics, Science, Science Denial
A New Book Explains How the Christian Right Has Gotten Selective Denial Down to a Science What inspired you to write Paranoid Science: The Christian Right’s War on Reality? I discuss in the Introduction how I stumbled across a writer associated with the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 16, 2017 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience, Science
A recent article in Business Insider is an encouraging sign that skepticism about the supplement industry is starting to go mainstream. The Supplement Con A recent article in Business Insider is an encouraging sign that skepticism about the supplement industry is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 14, 2017 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience, Science Based Medicine
Alternative medicine kills cancer patients Alternative medicine, by definition, consists medicine that either has not been shown to work or has been shown not to work. To paraphrase an old adage yet again, medicine that has been shown to work with an acceptable...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 14, 2017 | Pseudoscience, Science
The Sweeter Things in Life: Debunking the Junk about Splenda – SciBabe I’ve put a lot of stuff in my body in my life (your mind may be in the gutter, but deep breaths). But of all that stuff, not many of those things have caused as much controversy as one...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 14, 2017 | Agriculture, GMOs, Pseudoscience, Science
Farm Babe: The internet’s biggest culprits of fake news in agriculture | AGDAILY Recently, I got a pretty awesome notification from Facebook – they now allow you to report fake news. Fake news has been a very big problem online in all facets of life, but...
