Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Of course, the two guests have met before — check out my series on The One, psychic TV Show and how well a certain Éclair performed back then… You can read a BBC analysis with a larger photo, on this site — BBC Gloucestershire’s Chris Sandys reports: Has the photo been faked? “No. The images [...]
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I’m not the best at the moment health-wise, so I hope that you forgive a lull in my usual blog-posting schedule and reflect upon the following readings about the research and debate on the anti-vaccination story. It begins like this – from ‘The Sceptic’s Book‘: Channel 7 and the anti-vaxers; the story so far. On [...]
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UPDATE — Website by parents of 4 week old pertussis victim, Dana McCaffrey: http://danamccaffery.com and Facebook group. Great reporting — send in your vote to the Channel 7 website about the report on Meryl Dorey! Dr Rachie of the Skeptic Zone and The Sceptic’s Book has an analysis to read: In the opening introduction, the [...]
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Today, Dr Chris French, professor at Goldsmith’s Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at the University of London announced that: “The Guardian online’s science pages will, from this week onwards, be featuring regular monthly columns by Simon Singh, PZ Myers of Pharyngula blog, Andy Miah and me. Further details at The Guardian’s page at ‘And Now For [...]
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This is brought to you by ‘Toeface1′, who describes it as ‘…nowhere near a deep analysis, and I haven’t endeavoured to demonstrate the technical side of each reading but I’ve rather just made notes that any normal person would’ve.’ For those of you who are new to the experience of the TV show ‘The One’, [...]
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I’ll admit, it was something I’d given up on. Let’s face it, anyone can manipulate an internet poll to win, and it’s not something to be proud of. They who rally clicking fingers hardly equals true product quality. But it kind of irked me that the Channel 7 website ‘poll’ for ‘believer or skeptic?’ had [...]
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FIRST — if you’re in Australia, consider doing the following: SMS the Channel 7 ‘The One‘ voting hotline on 191977 by texting the name: RICHARD. Potentially screws up their tally for who will be the ‘winner’ for the show. Ah, I bet you thought I’d let it rot for this past week, huh? Well, with [...]
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