Saturday, September 29, 2012

Weekend Post - Women in science (not in Iran)

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I saw a news item on the BBC web site last week that was depressing. I should have known better, the world is over-supplied with depression ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The "Doctor" will see you shortly. For P5,500.

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The papers all have advertisements for a forthcoming seminar by Dr John Demartini , who they claim is a "Human Behavioural Specialist, ...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Weekend Post - The organic food movement is bogus

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Let me be blunt. The “organic” food movement is largely bogus . To understand organic food you have to play with words a bit. All foods ar...
Saturday, September 08, 2012

Weekend Post - Natural?

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If something is “natural” does that mean it’s good? If something is unnatural does that make it bad? Of course many “natural” products are...
Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Weekend Post - Aiming for the stars

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As a child, the biggest thing that sparked my interest in science was space travel. I was born in the mid-1960s and the first manned Moon la...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Weekend Post - Curiosity

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Anyone watching the international news recently will have seen stories about the landing on Mars of NASA’s latest explorer . The pictures co...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Weekend Post - Changing your mind

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A lot of people seem to think that changing your mind is a sign of weakness. It offends their sense of pride to think that they might have b...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Weekend Post - Theories

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Does anyone deny gravity? Is there anyone who believes that gravity doesn’t exist, that things aren’t somehow attracted to massive objects a...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Weekend Post - Mythtakes

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Tall and short, fast and slow, left and right, science and mythology, they’re all examples from the primary school classroom of opposites. S...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Weekend Post - Transplants

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It’s hard to write this. A year and a half ago my Dad died. This was a tremendous shock because he was still fairly young, was fit and healt...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Weekend Post - The Higgs

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It had to be the Higgs boson, what else could I write about? The recent discovery of persuasive evidence of the existence of this mysteri...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

Weekend Post - Wishful thinking

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You can’t make things happen just by wishing for them. No, you really can’t. Despite what New Age mystical thinkers like the authors of Th...
Sunday, July 01, 2012

Weekend Post - Vaccinating against intelligence

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Intelligence is dangerous. What’s more dangerous is skepticism. Worst of all is the combination of both. It’s not that knowing more about ...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Weekend Post - the organic food deception

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Why do people seem to think that things that are “natural” are somehow better than things seen as “unnatural”? Why is “organic” food so high...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Weekend Post - the problem with chiropractic

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Most so-called “alternative” health treatments are fundamentally harmless. Reflexologists, acupuncturists and the purveyors of nonsense like...
Saturday, June 02, 2012

Weekend Post - Stemming stem cell research?

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One of the most controversial areas of scientific research in modern times is stem cell therapy. Actually, it’s only controversial because c...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Weekend Post - Are you in control?

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Here’s a test for you. With the index finger of the hand you write with, touch either your left ear or your right ear. It’s entirely up to y...