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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
Category: woo
A bunch of us today are trying to point out some incredible hypocrisy and downright despicable slime being spewed by the idiots who want to blame autism on vaccines. The blame-vaccines crowd likes to use publicity stunts to try...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:27 PM • 55 Comments •
Category: woo
My friend and blog-father Orac sent me a truly delectable piece of bad math today. It's just astonishing: a supposed mathematical model for why homeopathic dilution works, and for why the standard dilutions are correct. It's called "The octave...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:41 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: woo
This is a short one, but after mentioning this morning how woo-meisters constantly invoke fractals to justify their gibberish, I was reading an article at the 2% company about Allison DuBois, the supposed psychic who the TV show "Medium"...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 4:36 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: bad physics
In the comments to another post, Blake Stacey gave me a pointer to a really obnoxious article, called "A New Theory of the Universe", by a Robert Lanza, published in the American Scholar. Lanza's article is a rotten piece...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:35 PM • 120 Comments •
Category: woo
PEAR is gone. Yes, I know I'm late with this news; folks like PZ, Orac and Jeff Shallit reported this great news days ago. But I wanted to add my two bits, by explaining just why this is good news....
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 1:03 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: woo
As PZ pointed out, Deepak Chopra is back with yet another of his clueless, uninformed, idiotic rants. This time, he's written an article trying to "prove" that there is an afterlife. Normally, when PZ comments on something like this, I...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:43 PM • 87 Comments •
Category: woo
While waiting for I was innocently browsing around the net looking at elementary math curriculums. I want to be able to teach my kids some fun math, just like my dad did with me when I was a kid. So...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:09 PM • 66 Comments •
Category: woo
This is a repost from GM/BMs old home; the original article appeared here. I'm reposting because someone is attempting to respond to this article, and I'd rather keep all of the ongoing discussions in one place. I also think it's...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:15 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: woo
I've been meaning to write something about homeopathy at some point, because it's just so wretchedly stupid. But until now, I haven't sat down to actually do it, because it can seem rather like beating a dead horse: it's just...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 5:19 PM • 38 Comments •
