I'd mentioned before that the Royal Ontario Museum was sponsoring a talk by that pseudoscientific goober, Deepak Chopra — perhaps Ken Ham had been unavailable — and as you might guess, quite a few people are dumbfounded that a respected museum was bringing in a quack. You can help protest: Larry Moran has a letter to the Director of the ROM, and you can add a signature to it.
I've been to the ROM, and it's excellent — there is no pandering to quacks there. I have to wonder who made this awful decision…and I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't some non-scientist in marketing.
More like this
Every now and then I come a cross an advertisement that makes me say "What the #&$!?" I have seen the ad for the ROM machine in the back of Scientific American for some time but I never bothered to read it. Until yesterday.
Step 1: Make sure the cable is good. If it is, seek help elsewhere, because that's all I've got for you today on this issue.