Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
New episodes out for the Token Skeptic podcast! The first is for all of those keen on psychogy of deception, illusion and how we can be fooled – Token Skeptic #29 features an interview with Prof Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, talking about their new book ‘The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Decieve [...]
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Firstly – sorry if I’m not keeping things updated, there are serious internet issues I’m having which limit my access. If you’ve recently emailed or ‘Tweeted’ me or even got in touch via Facebook, I will respond later when I can! Today, in my classroom, I told my students what the Australian Vaccination Network was, [...]
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Edited to add (thanks to Reasonable Hank): 24th May, 2010: Dr Andrew Wakefield – Determination on Serious Professional Misconduct (SPM) and sanction Accordingly the Panel has determined that Dr Wakefield’s name should be erased from the medical register. The Panel concluded that it is the only sanction that is appropriate to protect patients and is [...]
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On the heels of the wonderful news that Bill Gates and his wife are investing ten billion dollars to get vaccines to kids who need them… “Vaccines are a miracle,” added Melinda Gates. “With just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime. We’ve made vaccines our priority at the Gates Foundation [...]
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In case you’re not familiar with the story (I guess few readers of this kind of blog wouldn’t have a passing notion of who Andrew Wakefield is) – you might want to recap on the “shoddy, litigation- and profit-driven pseudoscience” of Wakefield, whose now discredited study published in The Lancet in 1998, linked the MMR [...]
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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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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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Left Brain Right Brain Blog / Autism Blog, a site I first subscribed to when it featured on the blog carnival Encephalon, has picked up on the research inadequacies of Jim Carrey (an occasional film star, more often featured fodder in desperate C-grade comedies where the only discernible plot-element is the range of his flexible [...]
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