Posted in philosophy, science on Jun 24th, 2008 6 Comments »
I was quite surprised by my reaction to the recording I made below from the album of the Pope’s visit to Ireland. I didn’t think I still had such strong emotions on the subject. It got me thinking of what it was that convinced me that religion was wrong - utterly, utterly, wrong.
It […]
Posted in science on Nov 20th, 2007 4 Comments »
We’re all familiar with the myth of Sisyphus and if you’re not you’re clearly too stupid to appreciate the rest of this post. This may seem harsh but there’s a purpose to my rudeness.
Intelligent, curious and responsible users of the internet are long aware of the huge amount of blatant stupidity and ignorance that […]
Posted in science on Nov 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
“The doughnut-shaped machine swallows the nun, who is outfitted in a plain T-shirt and loose hospital pants rather than her usual brown habit and long veil. She wears earplugs and rests her head on foam cushions to dampen the device’s roar. Giant magnets generate intense fields around the nun’s head in a high-tech attempt to […]
Posted in science, Film on Jul 30th, 2007 10 Comments »
One can today easily demonstrate that there can be no valid derivation of a law of nature from any finite number of facts; but we still keep reading about scientific theories being proved from facts. Why this stubborn resistance to elementary logic?
There is a very plausible explanation. Scientists want to make their theories respectable, deserving […]
Posted in science on Jul 5th, 2007 10 Comments »
“Steorn presents Orbo, our free-energy technology that will power the future. You are watching a live broadcast of our device from London. Come and see it for yourself, we’re open daily from 11 to 7.”
So says the Steorn website that is currently showing the live demonstration of the ‘free-energy source’ in an art gallery […]
Posted in science, Politics on Mar 15th, 2007 9 Comments »
Yesterday I received a couple of comments relating to the Behind the Swindle post below, one very gratifying and the other claiming that I was following ‘a well trodden green path, if you can’t attack the science attack the scientists’.
It was never my attempt to avoid the science and go after the scientist. So, it […]
Posted in science on Mar 14th, 2007 7 Comments »
An addendum of sorts to the post below on The Great Global Warming Swindle, which continues to generate a huge amount of posts across da Net. Some of these are very incisive and informative and continue to show just how bad the documentary is, while many others are mere reactionary twaddle, allowing nut jobs to […]
Posted in science on Mar 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Today I wasn’t supposed to talk about Peter Mandelson or Northern Ireland. Instead I was supposed to comment on the Channel 4 documentary the Great Global Warming Swindle and how the controversy it provoked was featured on Newsnight last night.
The claims in the documentary have already generated a lot of negative commentary, but it […]
Posted in science, satire on Feb 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
There is a fixation on health these days. Gillian McKeith is marching around on our TV screens, a diminutive food fascist pointing an under-nourished finger at the great bulging hulks who, though cowed initially by her matriarchic barking, are clearly thinking that they could easily eat her and still have enough room for dessert.
Food […]
Posted in science on Jan 9th, 2007 No Comments »
When I was in primary school I visited the Natural History Museum just off Merrion Square with my class – a not untypical experience of childhood. The museum was then – and is still probably now - dominated by a skeleton of a whale suspended from the ceiling in the main room.
The dust covered exhibits […]
