James Randi left us in 2020 after an impressive career challenging paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. While I try to avoid judging books by their covers, I have to say from his portrait here that he definitely looks the part. If …
Category: Renewables – Science
How Dumb Is Marjorie Taylor Greene? It’s Hard To Know
Re: the meme here, energy analyst Robert Rapier asks, “Is she really this dumb?” I doubt it. My guess is that she knows with great certainty that her voters are as dumb as rocks, and she’s simply giving them what …
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Don’t Expect Dr. Fauci To Be Let Off the Hook
From this piece from Christian pastor John Pavlovitz: Anthony Fauci dared to commit the one mortal sin for which there can never be any MAGA forgiveness: he stood in the face of their bloviating, belligerent, spray-tanned savior—and he spoke truth …
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Secret Societies
One of the reasons that atheists don’t believe in God is that they don’t think His existence adds anything in terms of our understanding of the world around us. From Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian, “If everything …
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On the Abrahamic Religions
Of the main monotheistic (Abrahamic) religions, Judaism is, IMO, the most benign, for the reason presented at left. It’s certainly the least convoluted; there is no Holy Trinity, for instance. It also requires the least acceptance of bizarre, and in …
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Let’s Not Demonize Uneducated People, But ….
The concept in the meme here is an extremely popular one in modern-day American culture. There’s a problem here, however, and it’s not that uneducated are deplorable human beings; it’s that they’re far more likely to accept utter bullshit as true. …
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“Positioning” Religion
In the field of marketing, “positioning” means creating an association in the prospect’s mind between what you’re promoting and something that’s already in the prospect’s mind. This can be a positive message (“Drink responsibly”) or a negative (“Renewable energy mitigates …
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No, God Is Not On Your Side
Another pearl from Pope Francis. If the atheist intellectuals, like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and the late Christoher Hitchens had their way, they would eradicate religion, largely for the role it plays in fomenting violence.
How To Consider Dandelions
To add some science to the discussion, it’s incorrect to say that a dandelion is not a “weed,” which is defined as an “unwanted plant.” Anywhere they’re unwanted, they’re weeds. Now, perhaps we should rethink what plants we want around …
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We Are Stardust
At left we see a fairly recent (last couple of decades) discovery in astrophysics. We’ve have known a great deal about the nature of matter for 150 years, but we had exactly zero idea where it all came from.
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