Last year, I think I was writing about how England seems to be awash with knife crime. It was during our election cycle, and I was getting pretty fed up with atheists being blamed for all the horrendous crimes of the past century, ala Ben Stein and his ilk (i.e. the Evangelicals, Fundies and Pentecostals). [...]

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Recent discussions, readings and a seminar on recovering from traumatic brain injuries, got me thinking about the benefits and the harm that comes with strong, irrational beliefs – such as the belief in a personal god, belief in prayer, belief in pseudoscience. I feel that there is a good foundation for why you should want [...]

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Hell, some of the happiest people I know are in cults! — Null Session

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Check out photos from the Putnam Museum w/Joe Nickell, Nov 8, 2008. Sponsored by IA-IL IEEE Section.

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If you want further proof of (what a local scientist called) living in “Blue Collar Mid-America”, just look at how popular the Ghost Hunting shows are. Tonight is Halloween, and I was happy to sit outside in a creepy clown mask and hand out Skittles to children – but, now I am online and looking [...]

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You know, Null Physics, that self-published book by Terrance Witt, contains no valid physics, so the name seems appropriate. Hmmm…. It seems that Blake Stacey agrees with me. He basically rips Terry Witt a new one, and links to a wonderfully scathing review of the book, Our Undiscovered Universe. [Read his article here.] This month, [...]

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I came across this story, while watching an episode of Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit!“, about a 9-year old girl who performed a test on “Theraputic Touch” nurses. Out of 21 nurses she tested, they were only able to detect (guess) which hand she was holding her hand over, in a blind test, 45 percent of [...]

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I am looking through Scientific American and a new magazine I just subscribed to, Science Illustrated (with lovely illustrations, I have to say), and what do I continue to come across? These damn 2-page ads that some guy with a BSEE and way too much money on his hands has plastered across most popular scientific [...]

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There are many examples of non-mainstream scientists or novices who claim to have a “theory of everything”. Most of these are developed by individuals who are convinced they are right, and the results are laughable. Theories based on a universe made of “light” or “colors” or “positive and negative energy” have more metaphysics than physics, [...]

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