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Did the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser just tell me to be a dick? Last week, ResearchResearch revealed comments made by Sir John Beddington at the Annual Conference of Scientists Working in the Civil Service on 3 February 2011: "We are...
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Last year I visited Ben Goldacre in his secret offshore nerdbase to talk about science. While there we set up the famous Barbie Detox experiment as described in his book Bad Science. In this short video Ben talks about why...
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Journalist Michael Specter makes a erudite and impassioned plea for reason and critical thinking in this video from TED. It's a fantastic speech, and huge tracts could have sprung from my own lips (and probably have done on one occassion...
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Sense About Science have published their annual roundup of the worst science howlers emanating from the pages of Hello! magazine, and it's a bumper crop. From horse placenta to homeopathy, celebrities love their bogus science. Among the more LOL-worthy comments...
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The NY Post reported yesterday that a brain-training type programme had been taken up by dozens of schools in New York, despite its connections to the Dahn Yoga cult. A controversial teaching program linked to an alleged cult leader managed...
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This strange episode of dodgy science and publishing is worth reprinting in its entirety from Ars Technica: Scientific publishing weirdness: This paper didn't strike me as weird so much as completely bonkers, given its opening sentence: "I reject the Darwinian...
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See below: Dear skeptical bloggers, podcasters, and keen supporters of skepticism,Inspired by the annual The Open Laboratory, the Skeptical Blog Anthology is a printed anthology of blog posts voted the very best of 2009, managed by the Young Australian Skeptics...
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It's sublime to see how "emotionalising" by Greenpeace turns into fodder for their antithesis, Not Evil Just Wrong. When you abandon science for scare tactics, nobody wins....
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Potions & Possibilities, makers of high-end toiletries and aromatherapy products, are claiming their products to be effective in the control of deadly swine flu. A document circulated on the internet lists "Top 10 tips for natural infection control". Originally circulated...
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Alternative medicine in the West has provided us with a constant source of amusement and occasional infuriation, but transplanted to the developing world, these homeopaths may prove as deadly as the diseases they claim to treat.
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