Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Just a quick late-night/very-early-morning-whip around for all of you keeping track of the ongoing Dore saga: Holford Watch, whose original complaint was upheld – ASA: Dore advert is “misleading” and breaches rules on “truthfullness” and “substantiation”. Brainduck‘s blog is a MUST READ – it is astounding how much grace-under-pressure this blogger produces while keeping up with [...]
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Determined bloggers who blew whistle – The Guardian: I make no sweeping claims about blogs and mainstream media – both have their roles – but in this case it seems the bloggers win on timeliness, accuracy, relevance, effort, ethics, and stupid names. My cat would be grumpy, but she’s too thrilled at being referenced amongst [...]
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From The Independent: Eight years and £15m after the business was set up, the administrators have been called in and all 13 centres in the UK have been closed. The company was taking advance payments until the day it went into liquidation. Remember what happened in Australia with Dore? Those keeping an eye on Holford [...]
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Whilst Gimpy’s blog and Holford Watch continue the questioning about Wynford Dore’s recent statement on the Dore website (don’t forget to check out Translucent Science – our collective blog!) - a brand new article in The Guardian – “‘Miracle Dyslexia Cure’ Firm On The Ropes”: A company that claimed to offer a “miracle cure” for dyslexia [...]
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First, I’d like to humbly direct people firstly to the blogs of the legends Brainduck, Gimpy and Holford Watch – who have inspired my investigations on this matter beyond the great blog entry back in 2006 by Ben Goldacre of Bad Science Blog. They have been keeping the best running-account of events so far; I [...]
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Remember my recent investigations into DORE? Some breaking news that involves the group here in Australia, thanks to Gimpy’s Blog and the ever-vigilant Brain Duck: Dore Australia have just gone into receivership. Staff (including myself) have not been paid for the month of May and turned up for work on Fri 16th to find all [...]
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