Tag Archives: Dick Cheney

The Brainstorm Podcast: “Fuck the planet reactor”

by | November 23, 2019

By The Brainstorm Podcast The Brainstorm podcast is Saskatchewan’s first skeptic and atheist podcast. An eclectic group of local skeptics discuss a variety of topics relating to science, skepticism, religion and politics while having a few drinks and a few laughs. [Ed. We will be releasing, with prior permission, the complete archives of The Brainstorm Podcast… Read more »

An unextraordinary claim: Torture doesn’t work

by | February 23, 2017

Torture is in the news again, sadly, as Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan made a public declaration that Canada will never use torture or be party to [it], a day after his meeting with US Defence Secretary James Mattis. That sounds decent, but there’s a lot of grey space around his words that needs to be… Read more »

The Fairly Extraordinary Claim That Torture “Doesn’t Work”

by | December 19, 2014

As if public “die-ins” weren’t sufficiently incongruous with the peace and goodwill of the Christmas season, our American neighbours have been indulging in a ferocious spasm of recrimination over the practice of torture. A committee of the U. S. Senate has compiled a godawful behemoth of a report (PDF here) on the Central Intelligence Agency’s… Read more »