Name: Shaun Robinson
Age: 24
Occupation: Web Designer / Developer
Location: Ipswich, United Kingdom
Living with: My partner Andrew, and two kids Elliot and Oliver.
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ReBlogged from cocknbull
Conspiracy theorists have used the internet to co-ordinate increasingly slick attacks on the accepted versions of events, but now a group of scientists and sceptics has decided it’s time to organise and fight back.
This is an absolute goldmine of common misconceptions — many of which I already knew but some I had taken for granted. Fantastic!
via david
ReBlogged from david
Just because you believe something, that doesn’t make it true. Just because you don’t believe something, that doesn’t make it false.
Penn and Teller made this point in an amusing way: they voted on the gender of a rabbit. After voting, they concluded “Voting on the sex of the rabbit will not change the sex of the rabbit.” Facts are facts, and cannot be changed by public opinion.
ReBlogged from ruminator
The Amazing Meeting sounds… well, amazing. Wish I could have gone.
There is nothing more powerful than an idea, and nothing more potentially harmful than a false idea that everyone “knows” is true and therefore does not question. “Natural” remedies are now a…
Oprah Winfrey has legions of faithful followers across the country, but they’d do well to keep a careful eye out as they tread the trail that Oprah blazes.
Name: Shaun Robinson
Age: 24
Occupation: Web Designer / Developer
Location: Ipswich, United Kingdom
Living with: My partner Andrew, and two kids Elliot and Oliver.