2023

If you are unlucky you may see posted on social media a scan of a recent article in The Australian by Adam Creighton. There is virtually nothing in that article which is accurate. The Dr Conny…

This song is based on a phone call from a man to his wife from one of the Twin Towers on 9/11. If this doesn’t move you …

Mark Latham is an Australian politician, and New South Wales leader of One Nation, a conservative libertarian political party. Mark spoke recently at a community gathering to express his concerns about women being excluded from public…

Who was Nimrod? If you are like me, you may have been baffled to see long stories posted on social media by members of fringe Christian groups (and some atheists) claiming that Nimrod was the founder…

Every year we seem to get the same bleating on Facebook about silly Christians celebrating Christmas. It usually goes something like this: “Well, it was a pagan festival, something to do with the sun, and the…

A school principal in Florida has been fired after showing her grade six students a photo of Michelangelo’s David. You can’t understand the history of Western art without knowing Michelangelo’s David. It is an astonishingly beautiful…

I have mentioned before that I have never met anyone who claimed to be an “empath” who did not turn out to be a self-absorbed narcissist. That is a tautology, I know, but the contrast between…

“Wind and solar will not only fail, but will cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment and be entirely unnecessary”. So say the mathematicians and physicists. Needless to say, the costs and pain of unreliable…

There are many alarming things on social media. This is one of the most concerning I have seen recently. There is a frightening depth of both ignorance and contempt for our history in the responses to…

Despite what you may have seen in shonky crockumentaries like Died Suddenly, COVID-19 vaccines have not caused a massive increase in fatal blood clots.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/died-suddenly-a-tsunami-of-antivax-misinformation-and-conspiracy-theories/ Despite memes being passed around social media, sudden cardiac death, even among…

Lots on the news over the last few days about protests in France, the fiery but mostly peaceful kind, about changes to the age at which citizens can access the old age pension. Currently in France…

Pornhub has been purchased by a Canadian investment company called Ethical Capital Partners. You have to wonder what “ethical” can possibly mean if it includes investing in a company that promotes using other people as objects,…

Painting stripes on a cow doesn’t make it a zebra.

My nephew Jaden’s band Two Time Shy have just released an EP – “It Looks Better Than It Sounds” consisting of their previous three singles, and this new one – “I’m Ready This Time.” They are…