- Lawyers call for science to clear AIDS nurses in Libya
Declan Butler reports on the Tripoli Six, medical workers sentenced to die by firing squad for supposedly infecting over 400 children with HIV. The evidence points to their innocence, and their lawyers are calling for the science community to rally to their cause. The bloggers are doing just that. - Margaret Thatcher Illusion
A hideous display of face perception. Read the original paper here. (via boing boing) - Physics of Superheroes 1 - Death of Gwen Stacy
Not even Spiderman's web could provide a slow enough change in momentum. - Astrology believers - unsinkable rubber ducks
Skeptico discusses the cognitive quirks that lead people to maintain a belief in astrology. And he rants. (via Orac) - The ABCs of Electronically Stealing an Election
Well, clearly these liberal ivy leaguers haven't done a very good job of stealing recent elections, but maybe we can learn from them anyway.
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From Declan Butler in this week's Nature:
Lawyers defending six medical workers who risk execution by firing squad in Libya have called for the international scientific community to support a bid to prove the medics' innocence. The six are charged with deliberately infecting more than 400 children…
I write a lot here about science denial, and it's been pointed out previously that denying that HIV causes AIDS, for instance, is deadly quackery. Now, via Nature write and blogger Declan Butler and Nature magazine comes news of another form of science denial revolving around HIV: the 7-year…
Declan Butler of Nature has issued a call for help from the scientific and medical blogosphere in protesting and raising awareness about an utter travesty of justice, a vile and utterly vicious miscarriage of justice. This is one that I can't help but throw the paltry weight of my own blog behind.…
This is absolutely unacceptable. 6 medical workers are on trial in Libya under the accusation of infecting children with HIV, and if convicted they could be executed. While expert testimony and scientific evidence was presented at the trial, this evidence was thrown out from a combination of…