The Australian Christian Lobby is not a particularly nice organisation. If you’re Australian and at all socially progressive or critical of religious tampering in the political system, then you’d probably be aware of the ACL as the group that tries…
So I was scrolling down Facebook, as the young‘ns do, and found an article which began pretty much as this one did. The author, like me, found a post on Facebook by some person they’ll never see, and has never…
This post is devoted to the question we asked on Episode 79 of The Pseudoscientists podcast: Do you think there should be restrictions on scientific research? Is human cloning too unethical to be done? Should animal research be stopped? Should we be allowed…
The marketplace of ideas has grown and strengthened during the digital revolution, but it has also brought about a decline in the filtering of incorrect information. “Good” ideas have difficulty rising above falsehoods in the overcrowded marketplace of ideas. False information can…
We can get this out of the way nice and early: yes, I am being paid by the government to say this, we all are. Got it? Fantastic, moving on. The most pervasive misconceptions in Hollywood are not that people can…
Should antivaccination literature be banned, because it potentially harms people, or allowed, to protect free speech?
Give us your answers in the comments, and our favourite (as well as the most interesting) responses will be read out and discussed on the show next week!
I am an unapologetic campaigner for compulsory vaccination. I believe that Westerners have become too complacent and take their access to amazing scientific creations for granted. What third world mothers desperately line up for to save their child’s life, we…
Sweet Jesus. First a mentally-disturbed man nearly kills an elected official, Gabrielle Giffords (and actually kills a number of bystanders, including a 9 year-old girl) in Arizona, and then a more lucid-sounding person, who also lives in the US, comes out…
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