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This is a reply to a post on a “pro-science” social media page. That page is a good source of information, but also leans towards being anti-Christian, mainly because its view of Christianity has largely been…

Cardinal McElroy recently claimed that the Church needed to pay more attention to “the lived experience” of LGBTQIA2S+ people, and be accepting of who they are, and therefore, of what they do. I disagree. I have…

Anti-vax and anti-science posters on social media often ask questions to which they absolutely do not want answers. For example: If you think the government cares about you, why don’t they care about the massive increase…

Over the last two weeks I have read through the Brereton report, Justice Besanko’s judgement in Roberts-Smith v Fairfax Media, the judgement of the Federal Court in Roberts-Smith’s appeal, and both Crossing the Line: The inside…

Nothing is “free,” obviously. Free just means someone else is paying for it. Sometimes that may be justified, but there is nothing intrinsically virtuous about the government taking people’s money and giving it to someone else.…

One of the constant refrains from the anti-vax conspiracy crowd during the COVID-19 pandemic was that masks don’t work. “Don’t you know how tiny viruses are? They can easily get through any mask. It’s like trying…

Hantaviruses were first isolated in the late 1970s, with Hantaan virus named after the Hantan River, the site of Korean War haemorrhagic fever investigations. Old World hantaviruses (e.g., Hantaan, Puumala, Seoul, Dobrava‑Belgrade) cause haemorrhagic fever with…

About twenty years ago a friend who had collapsed into new age silliness gave me a bundle of New Dawn magazines. She thought I would find them interesting. I did, but not for reasons she hoped.…

Catholic Just War Theory and the Case for U.S. Intervention in Iran Catholic just war theory, developed by St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas and refined in later magisterial teaching, offers a framework for judging when…

I saw a Meta post earlier today claiming that the $200 billion dollars per year spent on cancer research has accomplished nothing, and that there has been a 75% increase in cancer deaths since 1990. That…

We now know from the Epstein documents that the world is run by a cabal of baby-eating paedophile satanists!! Gosh, that sounds alarming! Is it true? Do the released documents provide evidence of this? Below is…

Just in case you were wondering what 6-7 means … The “6-7” meme, often written as “six-seven” or “67,” originated from rapper Skrilla’s 2024 song “Doot Doot (6 7)”, where he repeats the phrase in rap…

It is very easy to recognise failings in others. The recent release of the Epstein files has brought this into sharp focus. Jeffrey Epstein appears to have been a serial user of women and girls, some…

Spotify is not your friend ☹  And it’s certainly not ours. My band Hitstax spends a lot of time thinking about the stories we want to tell. More time, sometimes a lot of time, finding words…