Mormonism, which I am only aware of through the book America Unchained by Dave Gorman, is not a religion I've ever really come across. (I do feel suitably ignorant). I have read a …

When I first registered with this site way back in late 2009 I asked a question about whether the human mind could calculate rather than predict the future and whether so called py …

Ancient astronaut theories propose that extraterrestrials have visited Earth in the past and have originated or developed human religion, culture and/or technology. Is there any e …

What is Confirmation Bias and are there any published papers that explore and explain it?

What is the scientific method? Is this the best method for studying the natural world? Is there an approach that would result in stronger, more reliable evidence? What do we mea …

My understanding of the scientific method is that good science requires two key components. 1) A hypothesis is built to reasonably explain something that has been observed in natu …

In this chilly weather that the UK is having at the moment one piece of advice that anyone who is typically older and supposedly wiser than me keeps passing on is that we loose 1/3 …

NDEs or Near Death Experiences are commonly used by the religious and superstitious to justify the belief in an afterlife. What does the scientific and medical evidence tell us?

What is the 800 year lag of CO2 in ice cores, and is it evidence against global warming and climate change?