Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Well done to those who made an effort to raise awareness of this issue – which includes Rhys Morgan! Wales Online reports: A TEENAGER fighting a campaign against a controversial medical treatment that has been found to pose serious health risks won a round of applause from Cardiff’s full council. Rhys Morgan, a 15-year-old from [...]
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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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This pretty much sums up the scene around here. Actually, to REALLY set the scene for you in terms of what this storm has done in about four hours? I usually go to this (EDFAA) library at UWA. Photo is by Laura, fellow educator and works at the uni. This is the lower floors of [...]
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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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Thanks to Bruce M. Hood, author of ‘Supersense’, there’s been some regular blog posts on this most ridiculous (and absolutely, unquestionably horrifically dangerous in what they claim and then fail to do) contraptions. First, it was awareness-raising through his post ‘Dowsing for Death’, which introduced the ADE-651, a product which ‘claims to detect concealed explosives, [...]
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BBC News – Comic Dara O’Briain says libel laws ‘quash dissent’ Libel laws in England and Wales are being used to bully people into silence and quash dissent, campaigners including comic Dara O’Briain claim. O’Briain told the Law Society he backed calls to reform the “ridiculous system” that was attracting “libel tourists”. The Mock the [...]
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Since Q.I has finally (finally!) reached Australian TV, I thought I might mention an earlier TV show which features Alan Davies — Jonathan Creek. I began watching this years back when it featured on ABC TV, when I didn’t even know that there was such a thing as ‘skepticism’. What I immediately liked about this [...]
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