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In my previous post about the HIV summit, I wrote about my unanswered question (What should the DOH do about the...

I've recently learned about the plagiarism in a recent post and think that some sanctions are necessary. Therefore, together with our...

I asked the titular question at this morning's HIV Summit hosted by the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC). The event started...

Sometimes – actually oftentimes – we can get pretty sloppy and careless in our use of words. Take the use of the words “proof” and “evidence”. Proof and evidence, like speed and velocity, or theory and guess, have colloquial definitions that often lead to confusion. In order to smooth the progress of communication and avoid misunderstanding, these words have been given technical definitions in science and philosophy...For example, we prove a mathematical theorem instead of “finding evidences” for its truth, while we accumulate the evidence for a particular scientific theory but we never “prove” a theory. What’s the difference? The distinction is best illustrated by examples.

A blind summa cum laude graduate, a Barbie Doll for heathens, and Dawkin's Shaft impersonation (well, sorta). These and more weekly news updates available over at the full article!

"Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law."

Secularism won’t come as a gift or magically sprout overnight. It is like any human achievement – we MUST work to get it.

Poe's law may have been originally coined for fundamentalism, but it actually works on any crackpot theory (like the whole shebang...

Learning is hard enough, what more of those who like to rub other people's noses in and like to show off.