Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I’m quite busy today! Which is why I’m posting at about 6am. This used to be standard practice, being up at this hour, when I was working on completing one M.Ed, writing a proposal for another and doing a Grad Dip by distance ed… oh, and WORKING FULL TIME. But thankfully things have changed, but [...]
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Dear Quadrant, I think I’ll attempt a pseudoscience article: kind of the Sokal hoax in reverse. Don’t get me wrong: I liked the Sokal prank as much as Windschuttle did. Showing up hogwash from any ideological stand is a valuable exercise. But I think Australia needs the opposite experiment. From ‘Diary of a Hoax’, hosted [...]
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Today I was forwarded an email that has been doing the rounds. An email that was most likely created by someone was taking notes during the ‘Psychic Taskforce Event’ that I posted about (thanks to Andy D) on my blog entry called ‘The Horror, The Horror – Psychics Propose ‘Claremont Serial Killer’. Honestly? I’m torn. [...]
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Gawker.com – So, remember those guys who were going to reveal their earth-shattering Bigfoot discovery at a huge press conference? Well, the huge press conference happened yesterday and the intrepid hunters revealed exactly diddly-squat.
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From Pink Tentacle’s “Rice paddy art in Yamagata”: In the Yamagata prefecture town of Yonezawa, an image of 16th-17th century samurai Naoe Kanetsugu has appeared in a field near the Onogawa hot spring. The samurai, whose image is based on a portrait housed at the nearby Uesugi Museum, appears along with a pair of fireflies [...]
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‘Mystery of Missing Shakespeare Portrait‘ – NewScientist, 30th October, 2007. It is the kind of argument William Shakespeare himself would have enjoyed. On one side is a claim that a famous portrait of the Bard has gone missing and been replaced by a fake. On the other side, the claim is dismissed as nonsense. Actually, [...]
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