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Can We Trust Homeopaths to Accredit Their Own Training?
In a recent submission to the House of Commons Evidence Committee on Homeopathy, the Society of Homeopaths proudly assert ...(read more)
by Le Canard Noir
Aggregating the best of the blogs on science and pseudoscience
In a recent submission to the House of Commons Evidence Committee on Homeopathy, the Society of Homeopaths proudly assert ...(read more)
by Le Canard Noir
Concerns about Science So What website: poor accessibility, some poor quality content, and poor use of social media....(read more)
by jonhw
Inspired by Nadine Dorries, I take a brief look at the way politicians approach evidence. Then, I take a look ...(read more)
by jdc325
BANT have not even acknowledged my complaint e-mail (read more)
by jonhw
[BPSDB]It would appear that the University of Westminster have learned nothing from the intellectual mauling they received from Professor David ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Coin by Coin: What to do if you win the lottery (read more)
by Grey
I typed these terms into Google and picked three links from the first ten results. I found this video, this ...(read more)
by jdc325
Brilliant:If you own any shares in companies that produce reflecting telescopes, use differential and integral calculus, or rely on the ...(read more)
by pj
The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health (FIH) is an organisation that promotes and purports to regulate complementary healthcare. Set up ...(read more)
by gimpy
A collection of sublime images from embedded journalist Michael Yon of what happens when helicopters fly through dust ...(read more)
by SciencePunk
‘Alternative’ nutritionism marketed by British media nutritionists would not be a helpful import to South Africa (read more)
by jonhw
You might remember me writing about the Intention Experiment in the past. The Intention Experiment hopes to harness the power ...(read more)
by Paul Wilson
Yes, like it or not, now is the time to start thinking about the perfect gift for the geek in ...(read more)
by Le Canard Noir
Unlike most games, this one wants you to prevent havoc, not create it! But it's still ...(read more)
by SciencePunk
Recently I blogged the wholly inadequate response of H:MC21 to the upcoming House of Commons Science and Technology committee hearing ...(read more)
by gimpy
It's been almost 1,000 years since Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) began writing his Book of Optics, a groundbreaking treatise ...(read more)
by SciencePunk
Inadequate BBC response to complaint about Quinnell plugging Dore for dyslexia on Radio 5 Live (read more)
by jonhw
The British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT) have recently expressed concern in their newsletter that moves by ...(read more)
by gimpy
Props to Simon Singh, who brings us news of an "Interesting skeptical approach to the upcoming General Election" via a ...(read more)
by teekblog
Trustees of Life's 4 Living "came to a decision to cease all fund-raising activities and close the charity"....(read more)
by jonhw
Following my posts about the introduction to The Truth About Vaccines and the first chapter of the book, on vaccines ...(read more)
by jdc325
Examine the discourse of any alternative medicine and you will encounter a surprisingly homogenous set of themes: that their ...(read more)
by Le Canard Noir
Just found this on my PC, I wrote it some time ago, before the latest news on the failure of ...(read more)
by pj
Off to get the new Call of Duty today (because at heart I'm just a little boy). I was watching ...(read more)
by pj
I sometimes hear (or read) about the “power of placebo” – there are academic papers that examine the placebo effect, ...(read more)
by jdc325