Saturday, October 20, 2012

Weekend Post - They're just charlatans

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We’re surrounded by people who are deceiving us. I’ll be charitable and acknowledge that some of them are doing it out of ignorance, some of...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

"Quack company litigates against its critics"

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"Quack" A South African "quack company" has decided that threatening legal action against people who expose their q...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Weekend Post - Skeptical feedback

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Anyone who writes or blogs about science, critical thinking and skepticism is obliged to take criticism. Its part of the job description. It...
Sunday, October 07, 2012

Weekend Post - GMO Bad science

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c/o Natural News You may have seen recently a horrible picture of a rat covered in tumours, supposedly as a result of consuming genetica...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Yet another visitor dispensing wisdom (and fake degrees)

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The papers have advertisements for a forthcoming visitor to Botswana, the hugely esteemed  Dr John C Maxwell . He'll be offering ...
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 ...