Counterknowledge

Ian C

"Anything which exposes the quackery of..." fears of global warming, meat and intensive farming, nuclear power, new roads, and many many more can and should be added to the list.

Ray

How about adding to your list "anything that exposes the dodgy science involved in atheistic Darwinism" (ie: the paucity of fossil evidence for missing links, problems reconciling irreducible complexity, and the extreme mathematic improbability involved in so many beneficial chance mutations ever occurring - even given a time scale spanning billions of years).

Punishment of Luxury

Wow I agree with you on this post, all bunkum especially homeopathy total quackery. The point I would make is that your fellow blogger Melanie Phillips is not a fellow traveller on the rational road & does believe that the MMR jab causes autism has written about it extensively in The Mail also that we are here due to an intelligent designer. Have a look at this direct quote from her writing about evolutionists like Dawkins " In suggesting that life sprang into existence without any kind of governing intelligence, they fly in the face of the evidence emerging from science that the hitherto unimaginable complexity of life forms, including the living cell, makes it scientifically impossible for life to have emerged without some kind of intelligent design." Now all you need to do is get rational about climate change, scientists who are experts in the field tells us that the more C02 we put in the atmosphere the warmer climate will get yet for irrational political driven motivations many people refuse to see what is in front of their eyes. Great post

Mike A

A "crank'

http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles/archives/001468.html

Max Kaye

Prince Charles believes that homeopathy works. He heard it from his Rhododendron.

The same source makes claims for the existence of god, but Charlie keeps it quiet as he doesn't think we're that gullible.

Lee Jakeman

Spot on, Ray. Evolution theory belongs right up there, on the Counterknowledge list.

Rob Weatherill

His plea is for sound common sense and science based knowledge. He says we have well developed scientific techniques for testing truth claims. However, over recent years science itself has become discredited. For instance, where are the half million vCJD cases that were predicted? What about the millennium bug that was to bring nothing short of disaster and global recession? The common sense is just what has broken down. Who could have imagined a few short years ago that creationism could have made headway against evolution, sponsored mainly, according to Thompson, by Islamic fundamentalism? 95% of Muslims do not believe in evolution. I wonder why we always blamed just the evangelical Christians from the US? Who would have ever believed that Holocaust denial would be gaining currency, and then only be opposed rigorously when propounded by white neo-Nazis, but not questioned when it is of Arab origin? The sign on the back of a car reads: this car is protected by angels. Maybe a joke, maybe ironic, maybe the driver believes it!

Hip Gnosis

"Has someone bored you rigid at a dinner party by unveiling one of these "secrets"?" No. What sort of dinner parties do YOU go to?