Take a look at these two statues, both from the ancient Olmec civilisation of Central America. One looks negroid, the other a bit Chinese. Plenty of other Olmec statues look as if they depict people from other parts of the world because these …
Jerome Burne is the health journalist who co-wrote ex-Professor Patrick Holford’s Food is Better Medicine than Drugs. He’s a controversial figure in his own right, and if you read this magnificent fisking of his recent Daily Mail article on chicken pox vaccines you’ll understand why. …
An American cardiologist who was “drinking himself into an early grave” has told the Daily Mail about his “fairytale recovery”. Interesting choice of words, that. Dr Olivier Ameisen claims that taking a drug prescribed for muscle spasm has allowed him to quit suicidal binge drinking …
While apparently unwilling to resolve the situation in the manner the Vatican would like, Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson has told Germany’s Der Spiegel that he would correct himself if satisfied by the evidence, but stated that finding it will “take time”. No surprise then, …
Last Thursday, 50 people were killed when a commercial airliner (Colgan Flight 3407) crashed in Clarence Center, a suburb of Buffalo, New York State. Through a savage twist of fate, one of the deceased was Beverly Eckert, who was widowed as a result of the …
Today we honour the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Robert Darwin, one of the giants of the scientific world. Natural Selection, Darwin’s theory of Evolution, is one of the most famous and beautifully written scientific theories the world has ever known. But Darwin’s …
Readers of Counterknowledge.com will certainly be interested in the lead story from this week’s New Scientist, which discusses whether belief in God is down to evolution. The theory is that from an early age, human’s brains are attuned to believe in a supernatural entity, even if …
Oh dear. Liz Jones is at it again. The self described “super bright” woman whose chief journalistic output for the last few years has been moaning about her pointless relationship with the obnoxious Nirpal Dhaliwal has found a new subject to entertain her public: the …
Christian think-tank Theos just released their report “Reclaiming Darwin”, a rallying-cry to religious people everywhere to reject creationist nonsense and enter into a dialogue to think about how science and religion coexist. Which would be an innocuous cause if it weren’t for the fact that …
As the row over the lifting of Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson’s excommunication escalates – with the Vatican now ordering him to completely recant his views if he wants to return to the Catholic church – one question must surely weigh heavily on our minds at …