Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
From Slashdot – The Texas Board of Education — as discussed here last week — has voted on the guidelines for textbooks in that state, which represents a large enough market to have influence nationwide. The good news is that the board dropped a 20-year-old requirement that both “strengths and weaknesses” of all scientific theories [...]
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Psychologist Prof Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, who has made many studies of the supernatural, launched the investigation a month ago. Members of the public were asked to submit ghostly images for experts to analyse, the best of which were posted on the website www.scienceofhauntings.com. More than 250 pictures were received from all over [...]
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I’m involved with the site Stop Jenny McCarthy (www.stopjenny.com), a site that was started by another member (who wishes to remain anon) in response to the anti-vaccination claims of Jenny McCarthy. Soon, this site will be launched: Jenny McCarthy Body Count. It’s really quite clever – clicking on the links for the preventable cases and [...]
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Thanks to Skeptical Teacher for the overview in their blog earlier – here’s a few news links from today and there seems to be less ‘oh noes!’ and more ‘this is actually working out!‘. Yet to see any evidence of ‘footholds’ for the creationist opposition, so I’m keeping an eye on the NCSE site as [...]
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Finished listening to the most recent Skeptic Zone podcast? Dr Rachael Dunlop is interviewed! So, there was a bit of a chat on Twitter (and on Skepticality forum board, when I tried to be funny… eh, I try) about ‘songs that make you verklempt‘. Here’s mine. By Bill Bailey:
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Submission for April’s Scientiae: Rising to the Challenge: When I present anything using Powerpoint, I have to stop for about five seconds before I start – so I remember which hand I’m using and which buttons to press to progress through the slides. In 2006, I discovered what can happen if you overuse a computer. [...]
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From New Scientist: Supersense - Bruce M. Hood, a psychologist at the University of Bristol, UK, reckons that we are equipped with a “supersense” that tunes into a hidden (and, let’s face it, almost certainly imaginary) world of spirits, fates and spooky connections. Thanks to the supersense, objects such as pens and cardigans can be imbued [...]
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From The Times: The photograph, taken at Tantallon Castle near Edinburgh last May, was released yesterday by Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist, who “just for fun” embarked three weeks ago on an online research project, inviting websurfers to send him their photos of ghosts. …Hundreds of images were sent his way, from as far afield [...]
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