May 2006

You don’t go in to someone else’s forum or blog and start posting vast quantities of tripe. You don’t do this, and expect not to be banned.

There are lengthy lists of logical fallacies.  But for casual conversation, avoiding these top four will suffice.

To do science by questioning science, you have to show why a particular theory, or set of data is wrong. And why your work is better.

The jury voted 11 to 1 by secret ballot. The holdout not only refused to identify themselves, they also declined to reveal their reasoning.

The Greek Orthodox Church has joined the chorus of voices condemning the Da Vinci Code in recent weeks.

Author Melinda Barton makes the same tired claims that atheists are just as ‘extreme’ as fundamentalists.