Respectful Insolence
Archives for January 12, 2009
Here’s a cool idea: Blogging the Origin
Posted by Orac on January 12, 2009 Here’s a cool idea. Take a newbie, who has never read Charles Darwins’ On the Origin of Species, and have the newbie actually read the book. Then have him blog each chapter. That’s exactly what John Whitfield, London-based freelance science writer, is doing, and ScienceBlogs has him over at Blogging the Origin. Check it out.…
The Three Musketeers of Woo meet d’Artagnan to fight for woo on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal
Posted by Orac on January 12, 2009 The seemingly never-ending quest of advocates of unscientific medicine, the so-called “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) movement is to convince policy makers, patients, and physicians that, really and truly, it no longer deserves the qualifier of “alternative,” that it is in fact mainstream and even “scientific.” That very search for respectability without accountability is the…
The first Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle of 2009 is fast approaching
Posted by Orac on January 12, 2009 It’s amazing how fast the time passes. The year 2008 is now history. 2009 is nearly two weeks old. But, for purposes of this blog, most important of all is that the very first Skeptics’ Circle of 2009 is fast approaching. It will be held at Bug Girl’s Blog on Thursday, January 15, a mere…