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michael 100 #81 scary stuff michael having just read the comments in canada’s fossil fueled right wing press about new wildfires in canada being the work of arsonists and claiming they have nothing to do with […]

On my above post, premodded. Now we need to get on a united global science war footing to halt the evolutionary trajectory of superbugs. That evolution concerning hazardous microbes is driven by selection […]

Well, I guess the site is dedicated to science, and reality. And as if there isn’t enough disquieting information to confront on our contemporary situation, there is the problem of antimicrobial resistance […]

Things are truly dire in Sudan, Darfur, all over. Tribalism. Militia groups. Fighting men. They love it. Actualising their genes, the physique, cortisols, hormones, the neural wiring, exposure to violence and […]

Nuclear War, a Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen   A few days ago, Lawrence Krauss published a review of this book in Quintette. If you haven’t read it, I urge you to do so now:  htt […]

offg #15, Heh One doesn’t eagerly anticipate the final extinction of religion, even if such an eventuality were somehow inevitable, which I somehow doubt. Because that would spell the demise of irreverence, […]

#79 should be addressed to “Offg” Apologies!!  On another note, tomorrow, I’ll report on a just-published book that I’m reading now. Not the most pleasant read, but I’m afraid it’s a necessary one.

strato #14 a friend told me recently i must read freud’s moses and monotheism though there is much speculation there a lot of it fits well with what you say here about origins of judeo-christian ‘propaganda’ and […]

Michael 100 #9,   I don’t know if the ‘Book of Genesis’ had a single author, but it nevertheless became received ‘scripture’ in Judaism, and passed as a unit into the christian canon.    The account of ‘In the be […]

Off, I appreciate your critical eye.  However, by way of encouraging you to keep reading:   I was sure I heard about this book from something RD wrote shortly after it was published.  I did a brief google se […]