Snopes.com is one of the great weapons against counterknowledge – a mega-site that blasts every urban legend on the horizon. So it’s pretty surprising to read the allegation that Snopes is implicated in the commercial circulation of the counterknowledge that keeps the site in business …
And now for something a little more light-hearted. This video is a marvellous parody of Loose Change and its ilk. I’m posting it partly because it’s a neat little explanation of how these conspiracy videos are conceived and then created, but mostly because it really made me …
UCL might allow Islamic creationists in their lecture halls, but at least they draw the line when it comes to Holocaust denial. Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom has had his Honorary Research Fellowship terminated after an online paper, in which he denies the Nazis attempted an “intentional …
A quick reminder to opponents of counterknowledge to keep a close eye on the Andrew Wakefield case. Latest development, according to the Press Association yesterday: The doctor at the centre of the MMR vaccine row had limited experience of the medical ethics surrounding paediatrics, a …
A Montreal based conference will tomorrow (Saturday, 29th March) play host to four “minimizers” of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The revisionists dispute the version of events officially recognised by the UN, in which up to 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred over the …
I’ve only recently discovered the Butterflies and Wheels website, whose aims strike right at the heart of counterknowledge. It was founded to attack: 1. Pseudoscience that is ideologically and politically motivated. 2. Epistemic relativism in the humanities (for example, the idea that statements are only …
It is gratifying to see counterknowledge calmly and ruthlessly being picked to pieces. A group of Lebanese Muslims, made angry by a Facebook group which calls the Prophet Mohammed “a murderer”, have retaliated by starting their own group. It’s called “Based on the facts…There was …
In a Catholic Herald investigation published today, Bishop Richard Williamson, a senior English prelate of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), is exposed as a poisonous anti-Semite and 9/11 conspiracy theorist who believes that Jews are working on behalf of Antichrist. Scandalously, the SSPX …
Homeopathy is building an empire. A registered charity based in the UK, called Frontline Homeopathy, exports this alternative “medicine” to the poorest parts of the world to “promote homeopathy as an effective, low cost primary health care system in communities disadvantaged by social, economic and …
Extreme Creationists have been given the use of a lecture hall at University College, London, to preach against evolutionary science. Tomorrow’s event has been organised by the college’s Islamic Society as part of “Islamic Awareness Week”. Is that why UCL doesn’t have a problem with …