Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Well, I got back from the doctor’s on Friday where I ended up getting a few blood tests. The thing that amused me was how about a year ago, I got my MMR vaccination updated. Apparently the last blood test I did indicated that my immunity to measles had gone. So this time around, I [...]
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Big thanks to Stefan Sojka of the show for this one!
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Some great posts featured when Cheshire hosts a Skeptic Party! Ones I particularly enjoyed — Matt from the Skeptical Teacher discussing LHC doomsday conspiracy theories and Barbara A. Drescher from ICBS Everywhere on things which aren’t there and spinning circles and serial killers! Enjoy the read, I’m going to be rather sporadic for the rest [...]
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I am SO hoping this ends up on YouTube somewhere — what a hoot! From Brian Dunning on SkepticBlog: Today I was invited to host an episode of a new series for a major cable network in which I was to interview and administer a test to three professional psychics. This was the first episode [...]
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Today Simon Singh announces that he is applying to appeal the judge’s recent pre-trial ruling in this case, in conjunction with the launch of this support campaign to defend the right of the pubic to read the views of scientists and writers. In a statement published today, over 100 people from the worlds of science, [...]
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Now, Joel, Andy and Jack have all begun asking questions on Twitter – so, I have started asking more questions myself about the Dr Richard Wiseman ‘Psychic Twitter Science Experiment’ or whatever he and New Scientist are calling it. Psych-twitters? Anyway, it’s the one I noticed back in this post, Twitter If You’re Psychic? Or [...]
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Thanks to Bastard Sheep for this one!
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Sorry, I’m just so excited – Telegraph: Karen Alexander, a crop circle expert, said: “We have seen butterfly and bird patterns in the past, but this is the first jellyfish crop circle in the world. “It is absolutely huge – roughly three times the size of most crop patterns and extremely interesting. People have been [...]
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