Bright? Daft name, right idea…
Thursday, September 1st, 2005Pop over to The Brights site to find a growing community of people with a naturalistic worldview, free of mumbo-jumbo and suspertition (in its very many forms).
Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Pop over to The Brights site to find a growing community of people with a naturalistic worldview, free of mumbo-jumbo and suspertition (in its very many forms).
Homeopathy
Friday, August 26th, 2005The Lancet bravely takes on the job of showing what a load of nonsense is the belief that homeopathy "works" in any provable way. The published study (of which the link above is to the summary abstract) uses conventional scientific methods to show that there is no clinical effect from homeopathic ...
Quote of the Day
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005The late, great Douglas Adams hits the proverbial nail on the head: "God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining." Nicely put...
Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005The reaction of "World Leaders" to the death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has been just as craven and abject as might have been expected.
In the name of god
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005The recent terrorist attacks in London make one, yet again, wonder how on earth religious beliefs bring people to do such things. Polly Toynbee, writing in the Guardian a few days ago, captures it well: This is not about poverty, deprivation or cultural dislocation of second-generation immigrants. There is plenty of ...
