Missing Links (3): ‘Not-so-intelligent design’

This is the third installment of “Missing Links: overlooked arguments, faulty connections and flawed logic in the evolution debate”. In this series, Greg Stevens considers a selection of claims made on both sides of the evolution vs. creationism debate, exposing woolly thinking wherever he finds …

Prince Charles as King: A Regal “No” to GM Crops?

To coincide with his 60th birthday, Prince Charles – a.k.a. the Prince of Counterknowledge – took the opportunity to make an important announcement via his friend and biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby. When Charles is made King, wrote Dimbleby in the Sunday Times, he will continue to …

More on John Duignan’s The Complex: Brave publishers defy Scientology’s attempts to bully them

Further to our earlier coverage here and here, this morning I received an e-mail from Aoife Barrett, editorial director of Merlin Publishing, the brave Irish publisher who is resisting the Church of Scientology’s attempts to silence John Duignan. She supplied me with the following statement …

The ‘Satanic Ritual Abuse’ lobby and the non-existent Jersey murders

So, no children’s bodies are buried beneath the Haut de la Garenne Home in Jersey. How very disappointing for the Satanic Ritual Abuse lobby and how embarrassing for its favourite “expert”. Catherine Bennett tells the story in the Observer: Haut de la Garenne was not, after …

More on Apocalypse 2012: Shilpa Shetty and the mysterious ‘Oneness University’ cult

Here’s a post from my Holy Smoke blog over at Telegraph.co.uk. Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has joined a strange movement calling itself the “Oneness University” that predicts shocking natural calamities in the run up to 2012, the date for the end of the world supposedly …

‘Anonymous’ fight Duignan book ban outside Scientology headquarters in London

This protester would only give his name as “Xenu” The Church of Scientology’s latest attempt to silence its critics isn’t quite going to plan. Tottenham Court Road had to be cordoned off today to accommodate members of the online coalition known as “Anonymous” protesting outside the …

Dead by 2012? Glenn Kimball, the Kolbrin Bible and a historic hoax

We will all be dead by 2012, unless we heed the warnings given in the Kolbrin Bible. So claims Glenn Kimball, an “author and educator” from Arizona. The Kolbrin was maintained, says Kimball, by a series of “secret societies” (he doesn’t provide details) after it …

What would you ask Adnan Oktar, controversial Turkish creationist?

Do you have a burning question to ask Adnan Oktar, the controversial Turkish creationist who writes under the name of Harun Yahya? This is your opportunity. Mr. Oktar (about whom we have written here, here and here) has granted Counterknowledge.com an exclusive interview, so we’re asking our …

Amazon UK withdraws John Duignan’s Scientology exposé ‘The Complex’ from sale ‘for legal reasons’

Update: Merlin, publishers of The Complex, have provided us with a statement. Update: We have now published a review of the The Complex. On 7 October, John Duignan, who spent 22 years inside the secretive and dangerous cult of Scientology, published The Complex: An Insider Exposes the …

Prince Charles and India’s ‘GM Genocide’

After his off the wall outburst concerning genetically modified crops – and, in particular, the “widespread environmental damage in India caused by the rush to mass produce GM food” – Prince Charles was rightly labelled “the Prince of Counterknowledge.” Now, his royally bad science is …