There’s a new blogger in town and he means business. Nick, who guest blogged here in my absence during the summer, has launched the Old Brain Pan.

The basics of the scientific method are not difficult to understand and knowledge of it armours you against hucksters and circus barkers of all kinds, be they in the religion, government or advertising business. No one culture or race owns the scientific method; it’s universally available to all. It’s also transformed human lives, for better or worse, more than any other creed or social theory ever has or ever could, which is why fundamentalists of all stripes hate it and why we could all do with knowing what it is. Link here.