Saturday, 13 July 2013

Taken

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: 
If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, 
we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. 
We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. 
The bamboozle has captured us. 
It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, 
even to ourselves, 
that we’ve been taken. 
Once you give a charlatan power over you, 
you almost never get it back.
— Carl Sagan 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'

Sunday, 30 June 2013

Fundamentalism

Science is (systematic) knowledge.
Anti-science is anti-knowledge.
Anti-knowledge is pro-ignorance.
Who profits from your ignorance?

Saturday, 29 June 2013

Why The English Are Called 'Poms'

Rhyming Slang:

Angleterre = England
pomme-de-terre = potato

Monday, 17 June 2013

Separated At Birth

Richard Dawkins
Walter Carlos

Richard Dawkins
Walter Carlos

Saturday, 15 June 2013

Killing For Their Country

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
 — Bertrand Russell