Archive for April, 2011

Coyne’s letter to the NCSE and BCSE

By Bruce Gorton | 27 April 2011

Jerry Coyne wrote an open letter to the NCSE and BCSE complaining of a perceived pro-liberal Christianity bias within the organizations, and a tendency for people who work for them to bash “New Atheists”, alienating their allies.

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PSN down for seven* days

By Bruce Gorton | 26 April 2011

Sony has taken PSN down for the last five days basically because of an “external intrusion” into it, leading a whole load of gamers feeling a mite bit annoyed.

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DNA: The hot new thing

By Bruce Gorton | 21 April 2011

PZ Myers has come across a Chiropractor talking about people having 12 strand DNA, and how we need to learn to activate the ten we don’t use. Dibs on being Gambit.

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Why are we still stuck in the 1980′s?

By Bruce Gorton | 20 April 2011

At the moment the chief most important issue we have in our country are as follows: Poor municipal management failing to get in the money it needs to pay for the services people demand, leading to strikes by municipal workers and people who want their rubbish collected.

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Makes you feel good to be human doesn’t it?

By Bruce Gorton | 20 April 2011

In the last few decades we have gone from a situation where communication was hard, to one where we in South Africa have two sub-oceanic cables connecting us to the rest of the world.

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The evil of prayer – backing the ASA

By Bruce Gorton | 18 April 2011

One of the major examples of religious evil I use when in an argument on the subject is advertising prayer as a viable alternative to real medicine as a treatment of disease.

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Moral guardianship is about control

By Bruce Gorton | 16 April 2011

A major problem that comes with having moral guardians is they tend to ignore free market effects – they can’t take a like it or lump it attitude.

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Rees’ Templeton award

By Bruce Gorton | 9 April 2011

This year Martin Rees won the Templeton award for saying nice things about spirituality.

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Quantumin creep and the Zeolite rangers

By Bruce Gorton | 8 April 2011

One of the biggest warning signs you can see in anything is the misuse of the word quantum.

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How to spot a scam: Showing off

By Bruce Gorton | 7 April 2011

 

Freethought Kampala has an interesting piece on the Bio Disc one finger lift demo.

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