When Simon Birmingham was education minister he overrode the peer-review system of the Australian Research Council (ARC) to deny $4.2 million in funding for projects which had been recommended for…
Cervical cancer is the growth of abnormal cells in the lining of the cervix. The most common form of cervical cancer is squamous cell carcinoma which accounts for about 80%…
As I have related previously, creationists often ask the stupid question: “if we evolved from apes, how come there are still apes around?”. As I stated then, it demonstrates a…
I had a duodenal ulcer in the 1980s. It apparently started when I was under a fair bit of stress in a new job and it was stress which was…
I recently wrote a piece on Carbon dating in part response to an ignorant creationist who maintained that it couldn’t tell the age of the universe1. It isn’t supposed to…
To call creationists ignorant is of course an understatement. However, lots of people are ignorant; nobody can know everything as knowledge these days is too diverse and too deep for…
[This was put together almost a decade ago, initially as a half hour public presentation for the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, so could not be…
Just about everybody knows the ‘beetrooter’ story of Barnaby Joyce and Vikki Campion now that it has been plastered over the newspapers for months1 and has been on television, including with…