Ventures into scepticism
It’s extraordinary how a simple music video can so well convey the wonders of science.
A musical celebration of the wonders of biology, including evolution, natural selection, DNA, and more. Featuring David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Bill Nye.
Last year was the year I first encountered the anti-vaccer movement, and such a strange movement it is. People risk serious injury and consequences by not vaccinating. All because they are scared of either autism or the mercury in vaccines (or a combination of both).
Especially the mercury concern is something I don’t understand. As a tuna sandwich contains more mercury than a vaccine, and that’s something most of them eat without a second thought. Or even let their children eat it, while they refuse to vaccinate them. Read moreFull article
It has been a busy month, with for example organizing the 12 hour fundraiser show for the Secular Students Alliance. And now handling all the traffic I got from the shout-out from TheLivingDinosaur. Not to mention a very busy month at work.
It was fun, but a bit draining. So I’m going to celebrate the holidays with my family and friends for some needed rest. But I’ll leave you with a nice seasonal greeting from Fox news:
As winter descends, Fox is keeping with its annual tradition of using snowstorms and cold temperatures to mock global warming. But scientists say climate change could make winter storms stronger and more frequent.
This saturday, starting at 19:00 GMT, SkepticTV will be doing a special 12 hour show to raise funds for the Secular Students Alliance (SSA):
The mission of the Secular Student Alliance is to organize, unite, educate, and serve students and student communities that promote the ideals of scientific and critical inquiry, democracy, secularism, and human-based ethics. We envision a future in which nontheistic students are respected voices in public discourse and vital partners in the secular movement’s charge against irrationality and dogma.
Stephen Schneider was a professor of Environmental Biology, a great scientist and one incredible science communicator.
The short below was made by Stephen Thomson, a year in the making, and pays tribute to this scientific and academic important figure.
Professor Schneider will be missed.
A year in the making, this video pays tribute to a critical scientific and academic figure in postmodern history: the late Climatologist and Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider (1945-2010)
This video was screened before a live audience by Climate One of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Dec 6, 2011 as the introduction to an event honoring Stephen Schneider and presenting an award in his name to Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences and Associate of the EMS Environment Institute.
This video will be presented again tomorrow at the AGU (American Geophysicists Union) Conference currently being held in San Francisco.