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 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 12, 2017 | GMOs, Science, Science Denial
Kyle Kulinski: Another Lazy YouTuber At this very moment in time, I am sat at a bar in Dubai Airport enjoying a beer, as I wait for what seems like an eternity for my next flight to finally take me home to England. When I was last...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 2, 2017 | Evolution & Darwinism, Science, Science Denial
How to slam dunk creationists when it comes to the theory of evolution The 2001 discovery of the seven million-year-old Sahelanthropus, the first known upright ape-like creatures, was yet more proof of humanity’s place among the great apes. And yet Mike Pence,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 22, 2017 | Climate Change & Global Warming, Science Denial
Potholer54 (science journalist Peter Hadfield) takes a look at the spin, distortion, and outright deception (lies) that professional global warming denier like Christopher Booker puts on a real scientific study so that the right-wing blogosphere can spread his...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 30, 2017 | Science Denial, Skepticism
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 23, 2017 | Science, Science Denial
(Practically) Nobody is Anti-Science A version of this piece appeared on the Genetic Literacy Project in September of 2014. As I was at the Portland, OR March for Science today, I walked past a woman who had cornered me at a March Against Monsanto rally a few years...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 7, 2017 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Donald Trump, Science, Science Denial
Do not buy the House Science Committee’s claim that scientists faked data until you read this On Sunday February 5th, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology published a press release alleging, based on questionable...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 2, 2017 | Critical Thinking, Science Denial, Skepticism
Six Ways to Debunk Any Conspiracy Theory Fighting conspiracy theories with reason and evidence on the Internet is often tiresome and irritating. It usually involves extreme details of some scientific, historical or technology topic and it takes a long time to learn...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 31, 2017 | Science, Science Based Medicine, Science Denial
The research linking autism to vaccines is even more bogus than you think The details from investigations into the research are...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 25, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Science, Science Denial
What we actually lose when the USDA and EPA can’t talk to the public Update, January 25: Reports on the gag order have received a great deal of attention. This piece been updated to reflect additional information released since its original publication. In the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 23, 2017 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, Psychology, Science, Science Denial
Researchers Say They’ve Figured Out What Makes People Reject Science, and It’s Not Ignorance A lot happened in 2016, but one of the biggest cultural shifts was the rise of fake news – where claims with no evidence behind them (e.g. the world is flat...
