Category: Rationalist Society of Pakistan
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Gravity hills – supernatural forces at work?
Originally published in The Rationalist, Vol I, Issue I – http://rationalistpk.org/2012/06/gravity-hills-supernatural-forces-at.html Gravity hills are the places where due to the surrounding perspective and absence of a reliable reference point, a slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope. Hence, when a ball is rolled or water is dropped or a car is freed of…
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Editorial – Quarterly, The Rationalist Pakistan – Vol I, Issue I, June-Aug, 2012
Originally published in The Rationalist, Vol I, Issue I, Jun-Aug, 2012 – http://rationalistpk.org/2012/06/miracle-of-water-spring-under-obls.html The influence of online social media has significantly presented its importance in the second decade of 21st century. The twitter and facebook lead revolutions in middle east have shook the world. Moreover, big guns tweeting directly on a common person’s computer updating…
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Osama Bin Laden’s Spring
Originally published at http://rationalistpk.org/2012/06/mythbusting-osamas-spring.html Surprise happens, when gushing water oozes out from OBL’s compound in Abbottabad. But this is not the surprise. The surprise is that the local residents calls this a miracle. A miracle which happens because according to them innocent (yes, you read it right, innocent) people were killed there. Now I wonder…
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E-Jihadis at Full Throttle: Fake Column of Hamid Mir
http://rationalistpk.org/2012/11/e-jihadis-at-full-throttle-fake-column.html Today Ahmad Waqass Goraya tagged me in a post of E-Jihadis on a facebook page named Golden Pakistan (https://www.facebook.com/Goldenpak). What I saw was equally nonsense and depressing. There was a column by Hamid Mir Sb in which he exposed his editor and some other fellow journalists including Mubashar Luqman, Nusrat Javed, Kamran Khan and…
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The Great Malala Drama
Originally published at http://rationalistpk.org/2012/12/the-great-malala-drama.html Let us have a look on another obsession of our nation with a drama, recently telecasted by all the news channels and newspapers live on whole planet earth. This is the drama of Malalai Yousufzai; a 14 years old girl who acted to be shot by Taliban due to her being…
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Demystifying Agha Waqar’s Water Kit Fraud
This article was published at Rationalist Society of Pakistan’s Website and can also be read here www.rationalistpk.org/2012/09/demystifying-agha-waqars-water-kit-fraud.html Many people in the past have claimed to run vehicles on water. But all of them have turned out to be frauds. It is very simple. If water could be used as a fuel, then it is the…
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In the defense of Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
Recent Capital Talk show has spread serious discomfort among few people about Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, as evident by their comments on the videos. I just want to clear few points. I agree with what Dr. Sb said to that quack in the show. Before starting abusing Dr. PH because of his behaviour in the show,…