Pseudoscience:
Orac: The American Academy of Pediatrics versus antivaccinationist hypocrisy Drake Bennett: Black man vs. white woman Sheril R. Kirshenbaum: The Presidential Science Debate That Happened TODAY In Boston! and The Boston Debate Mike Dunford: The Role of Science in Politics:...
Posted on February 18, 2008 10:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bloggers often highlight e-mail they get. I also get a bunch of loony stuff (and if it is not loony I try to respond, unless it is a medical question which I cannot ethically answer as I am not an...
Posted on January 11, 2008 8:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is woo of the decade! Priceless: How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? by Hiroyuki Nishigaki is, according to the Amazon reviewers, absolutely hilarious - reading it will make you...
Posted on December 2, 2007 11:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Galilei kicked us out of the Center of the Universe. Darwin kicked us off the Pinnacle of Creation Freud kicked the Soul out of our Brains. Few remain adherents of Geocentrism. The opponents of evolution are legion and very vocal...
Posted on October 3, 2007 2:37 AM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Naomi Oreskes, the author of the 2004 paper in Science about the scientific consensus on global warming, recently had her work attacked by regressive denialists (including on Senator I-hate-science-Inhofe's blog). Her full response is now available on Stranger Fruit. Go...
Posted on August 31, 2007 2:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My Scibling Tara Smith together with Steven Novella, published an article in PLoS Medicine last week that all frequent readers of science blogs will find interesting: HIV Denial in the Internet Era: Because these denialist assertions are made in books...
Posted on August 21, 2007 5:14 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ha! Check out this brand-new blog! Ste is going to bookstores, checking out the Science section and moving pseudo-science, anti-science and nonsense books from it to the New Age section. Just a couple of Behe books in the La...
Posted on July 21, 2007 3:46 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Echidne, Amanda Marcotte, Laelaps and Larry Moran beautifully destroy the "Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature" article from the recent issue of 'Psychology Today', the latest garbage from the Evolutionary Psychology crowd. Much fun was had by all.......
Posted on July 12, 2007 9:56 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's been a while since I last blogged about the Bosnian Pyramid (I did follow the story superficially, though, but was sick of trolls attracted to the topic), but I have to break the silence for this piece of good...
Posted on June 30, 2007 10:56 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I often blog about malaria because it is a fascinating disease which has to be studied in a highly integrative manner, is a great teaching topic and I could tie it in with my own field. If you share my...
Posted on June 8, 2007 3:02 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the May 18th issue of Science there is a revew paper by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg. An expanded version of it also appeared recently in Edge and many science bloggers are discussing it these days. Enrique has...
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Posted on May 31, 2007 1:28 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It could be the seasonal use of pesticides, as this study suggests, or it could be seasonality in nutrition of mothers and infants, or seasonality of environmental stressors, or seasonality of mothers' hormone profiles. Most likely all or most of...
Posted on May 8, 2007 7:12 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How does one fisk a medical quackery when there is no attempt whatsoever to explain what it is all about - not even a string of New-Age mumbo-jumbo, nonsensical, vaguely English-sounding words. All it says is: Buy The Book. Yeah,...
Posted on May 2, 2007 2:35 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My SciBlings Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet just published an article in 'Science' (which, considering its topic is, ironically, behind the subscription wall, but you can check the short press release) about "Framing Science" Carl Zimmer, PZ Myers, Mike Dunford...
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Posted on April 7, 2007 3:33 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I really did not have time to follow up on the whole case, but Alun has so check out his latest.... And you can always be up to date by following the postings on the APWR Central blog. I wish...
Posted on March 31, 2007 10:05 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chris and Mark Hoofnagle have recently started a new blog - Denialism.com which I warmly recommend. Wanna know what denialism is? Check out their definition, or even better, their article: The Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric...
Posted on March 23, 2007 2:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A tribute......
Posted on March 1, 2007 10:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Geocentrism: the True Believers...
Posted on February 18, 2007 6:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Remember this, and use it next time you are debating religion, politics or pseudoscience: "....someone wearing nothing but a Peter Gibbons-esque cheerful smile and having nothing but kind words for anyone will always be wrong if he says 2 +...
Posted on February 15, 2007 10:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Alan Sokal (famous for attacking the Lefty postmodernist abuse of science in the 1990s) and Chris Mooney (famous for attacking the Republican War on Science in the 2000s) sat down and wrote an excellent article in LA Times that came...
Posted on February 4, 2007 1:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I love it when Archy blogs about mammoths and the latest post is perhaps his best yet!...
Posted on January 25, 2007 2:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It appears that Ed Cone gets some commenters who desperately need to tune in next time Skeptic's Circle comes around! They defend this crap (and, in turn, attack Randi of all people) in the comment thread! Oy vey! Some people...
Posted on January 15, 2007 4:13 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mark points out to this amazing example of innumeracy: Yup, it is 25 minutes long and it is frustrating as hell. And there is no resolution in the end. To make a long story short, the guy went to Canada...
Posted on December 9, 2006 7:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Or the Carnival of the Godless? You can mine this site for ideas. Ooooh, scientific materialism! Scary! Papa Jeebus, protect me, please, because I am a coward!...
Posted on December 8, 2006 2:21 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For real?...
Posted on November 30, 2006 1:59 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you are interested in the saga of the Bosnian pyramid, it may be difficult for you to follow it as the members of the Anti-Pyramid Webring write mainly in some version of Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian language. But now, they have started...
Posted on November 18, 2006 9:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An oldie but goodie (June 12, 2005) debunking one of the rare Creationist claims that encroaches onto my territory....
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Posted on November 15, 2006 11:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You may have heard about the crazy "discovery" of a pyramid in Bosnia, the scientific nonsense about it and the political heat it provoked. I have covered the story last winter and spring in a lot of detail (see my...
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Posted on November 14, 2006 11:16 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just in case you have, as a child, heard the myth that ducks' quack does not produce an echo, and have never outgrew the myth (possibly by never even thinking about it ever since), a potential IgNobel winner for next...
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Posted on November 4, 2006 8:56 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of th efirst posts on Circadiana, just defining what the blog was about (January 17, 2005):...
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Posted on November 1, 2006 10:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Archy sums it all up in An object lesson in Wiki research. Nice to see a professional historian take a look at history of pseudoscience....
Posted on October 30, 2006 11:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...and no means to get back! See how that happened on the latest Skeptics' Circle - On a Mission from God, up on Left Brain/Right Brain. Then use the Quackometer (the last link at the bottom of the carnival) to...
Posted on October 26, 2006 12:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's been a year since this first appeared (September 21, 2005). I wonder if the "academy" is still open or what are they studying there.......
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Posted on October 25, 2006 10:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Razib and commenters are commenting on this article which appears to be 19th century SF-fantasy repackaged as "serious science" about the future evolution of the human species. Actually, the article is so silly, Razib does not even want to waste...
Posted on October 17, 2006 9:24 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
John bemoans the state of science journalism, with some added history of the Atlantis hypothesis....
Posted on October 14, 2006 4:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You can read and LISTEN TO the 45th Edition of the Skeptic's Circle at The Inoculated Mind...
Posted on October 12, 2006 9:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bill Bailey reports that an organization called 'Screening for Mental Health' offers free screenings for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). But then, they push drugs on people they "diagnose". The only problem - SAD is not treated with drugs!!! It is...
Posted on October 5, 2006 4:09 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 44th Skeptics' Circle is now up on Salto sobrius....
Posted on September 27, 2006 7:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
People argue bad science, psuedoscience and nonsense for a variety of reasons, some religiously motivated, some politically motivated, some out of ignorance, some out of arrogance, some out emotional needs, some due to psychological problems. When they encroach onto the...
Posted on September 20, 2006 7:58 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over 1.6 Million Americans Use Alternative Medicine For Insomnia Or Trouble Sleeping: A recent analysis of national survey data reveals that over 1.6 million American adults use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to treat insomnia or trouble...
Posted on September 20, 2006 3:42 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This strange November 09, 2005 post should really be posted on Friday as part of the Friday Weird Sex Blogging.......
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Posted on September 20, 2006 10:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Found on eBay!
Posted on September 1, 2006 11:44 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since Chris Mooney's book has just come out in paperback and the critics often invoke false equivalence between abuses of science on the Right and the Left, I thought this would be a good time to repost this August 05,...
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Posted on August 31, 2006 10:54 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 40th edition of the Skeptic's Circle is up on Daylight Atheism....
Posted on August 3, 2006 10:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Coca-Cola edition of the Skeptic's Circle is now up on Skeptic's Rant....
Posted on July 6, 2006 9:32 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Debunking two misuses of the term and concept of "circadian clocks" in medical quack field.
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Posted on July 3, 2006 9:59 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is a whole slew of responses to this silly post by Comissar/ It is a typical effort to make "balance" between Left and Right in order to make the Right appear more palatable, ...or palatable at all. The typical...
Posted on June 26, 2006 5:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
