The common defences used by superstitions, religion and sometimes conspiracy theories. Rational thinking pushed aside!

This is a rewritten version of an earlier post -
These three phenomena cover a wide array of activities and beliefs but share the same broad sense that they break away from what could be considered to be ‘natural’ and move towards trying to produce or support events that cannot be explained unless there is an [...]

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These are a few of my favourite Logical Fallacies!

Logical fallacies are errors in reasoned thinking and they happen to appear a lot, these are simply the result of a method of argument that appears to work on the surface but which does not stand up when questioned. I tend to view fallacies not as bits of knowledge that have been created rather they [...]

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A major non-rational response to the MMR Vaccine’s potential threat!

The MMR vaccine, an all-round method for protecting children against measles, mumps and rubella, was first used right at the end of the 1960’s it was clear to see it was an ever effective method of disease control. This vaccine was the result of scientific methods and the empowerment of people to see something that [...]

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An introduction to Religion, Superstition, the Metaphysical and Science!

There is an old Irish saying, religion is the superstition of fools and I cannot help but think that should be religion is the religion of fools! I will give religion one point though, not that I’m actually keeping a record of points awarded or anything, at least for the most part it is perhaps [...]

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Induction – how science creates objective knowledge and how others get it completely wrong (Ghost Hunters)!

When you first enter the discussion of the concepts of induction and deduction there is a confusing analogy that has to do with swans, I will try my best to steer away from this since it never really makes it clear at all. Still this is my case to why Ghost Hunters the TV show, [...]

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Is the earth designed for life or is life designed to live on the earth?

I was listening to a recently filmed debate and the idea came across that the earth was designed; this was presented by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. These are the things he mentions, which I have heard before, I would like to summarize them; if the earth were a little closer or further away, then the earth [...]

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Muslim guilty of Twatism too! Reasons to why Zakir Naik is wrong and does not understand the real world!

* This is not the original video but it has the same gist
I have already done the Christians so it is only fair that I comment about this Muslim man as well. Mr Zakir Naik makes me very angry in so many ways; I don’t recognise his Dr as he [...]

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Peter Donnelly’s Fooled by statistics

Donnelly is a statistician, please keep reading it’s more interesting than it sounds, in his talk discussing errors that people use when they apply statistics it shows a real example of rational understanding. He goes onto talk about disease tests being right 99%, why this does not mean the chance of the test being right [...]

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Fundamental Scientists vs Fundamentalists Religion

*Picture take from CartoonStock.com
Fundamental scientists or to change the meaning to the thing I was trying to say – the fundamental rules that knowledge collection must follow in order to be considered to be science. Plus for contrast I thought I would put in the Fundamental rules that religion seems to follow, of course this [...]

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Rives – Oh one of them! And Graham Hancock…

Rives highlights the one thing that really gets to me, there is a method that human brains normally use; they create patterns when there is just randomness. If you are thinking of someone and then the phone rings to only find that it is actually them, it’s nothing metaphysical or spooky it’s just random chance. [...]

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