Sunday, November 29, 2009
This week’s Pod Delusion features a fascinating interview with the wonderful Ariane Sherine, creator of the Atheist Bus campaign and editor of the one essential Christmas gift this year, The Atheists’ Guide to Christmas. The Atheists’ Guide is a brilliant anthology of atheist and science writing, comedy, fiction and even a section on silly party [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
The flooding was so bad around the city and county of cork last week that I was wondering whether I would actually be able to travel to Kinsale on Tuesday to do my comradely duty and picket the college. As it turned out, the road through Bandon, which had been closed by the floods, was [...]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
From the Irish Times by John Gibbons: Pat Kenny, the premier Irish broadcaster famed for his grasp of current affairs has recently stated: “The climate change debate has been raging for decades, and there are still so many fundamental questions left unanswered.” WTF?! There is no debate Pat other than how much time we might [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thanks to Tom for sending me the link to this essential reading from Ireland’s premier green economist Richard Douthwaite in Construct Ireland Magazine. Douthwaite explains the state of the world and Irish economy with reference to the housing bubble and declining fossil energy reserves. The predictions are fairly grim- stop paying into a pension, they [...]
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Book Review: The Heretic’s Guide to Vegan Cookery Warning! Not suitable for Breatharians Andy Murray The Good Elf Press 2009 187pp Astrology is an amazing tool to run your life by, without having to waste time with the fraudulent pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo of Science. Astrology explains wars, thunderstorms and plagues. We can even use it historically. [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The new online journal Forth has an article by Lenni Antonelli who interviewed me on the subject of pseudoscience and the environmental movement.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Much of the time woo cannot be directly attributed to any specific incidence of great harm, rather, superstitious and anti-science beliefs chip away at people’s ability to think straight, opens them up to exploitation to the unscrupulous who would sell them lies, and generally undermines democracy and freedom by slowly turning the population into a [...]
I am on this week’s episode of the UK-based Pod Delusion talking about Biodynamics and the environmental movement: This week: David Nutt’s Sacking and Government Policy by Simon Howard A.N Wilson’s Attitude to Science by Pete Hague Irrationality and Environmentalism by Graham Strouts Collective Worship in Schools by Owen Duffy This is a weekly podcast [...]
Welcome to the first Zone5 Podcast! These are likely to come out rather irregularly but I might manage one a month or so. Albert Bates at the charcoal barrel at Cloughjordan Eco-village, August 2009 This first podcast is with Albert Bates of The Farm, Tennessee, who I interviewed in back in August . Albert talks [...]