by podblack on March 13, 2009
Here’s me! Here’s the latest Australian Skeptic! I’m on the front cover again! Kind of – you can see the title of one of the articles I wrote. I wrote ‘An Introduction to Parapsychology‘ and did an interview with Dr Caroline Watt (you can catch the Skeptic Zone interview with her here). I also did [...]
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by podblack on March 12, 2009
Interviewed on the Skeptic Zone Podcast, Ben Goldacre features on London Tonight: By the way — spot us bloggers who helped with the story at around the 2.30 min mark! Including The Lay Scientist and The Sceptic’s Book.
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by podblack on February 20, 2009
You know, since Translucent Science and contributing to the awesome collective power of: Bad Science, Brainduck, Gimpy‘s Blog and HolfordWatch … all wonderful, wonderful people whose blogs you should be checking out as I quietly submerge under a pile of statistics and bibliography for my thesis… Not once had I had the slightest suspicion that [...]
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by podblack on February 10, 2009
From the comments on Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science site: The fatuity of the Jeni Barnett woman’s manner – her blend of self-righteousness and stupidity, her simply quite staggering inability to grasp, pursue or appreciate a sequence of logical steps – all these are signature characteristics of Britain these days. The lamentable truth is that most [...]
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by podblack on February 10, 2009
EDIT TO ADD – Dr Ginger Campbell of Brain Science podcast also faces lashback over her recent interview with Dr. Paul Offit, author of “Autism’s False Prophets,” which does a good job of detailing the story of Andrew Wakefield, the anti-vaccine lobby’s “hero.” Please feel free to copy and share this interview with others. And [...]
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by podblack on February 7, 2009
In a February 2009 show, Barnett’s topics included the MMR vaccine, in which she and some callers expressed negative opinions of the vaccination, allopathic medicine in general, and disagreed that recent disease outbreaks should be blamed on parents that choose not to vaccinate their children. The discussion attracted considerable criticism of its accuracy and possible [...]
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by podblack on February 7, 2009
The Full Transcript: Part 1 — Science Punk Part 2 — The Lay Scientist Part 3 — PodBlack Cat Part 4 — The Skeptic’s Book Part 5 — Science Punk Part 6 — Holford Watch The Youtube Is Here:
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by podblack on February 6, 2009
From about twelve minutes in to about nineteen minutes in of the interview previously blogged about – a transcript: JB: You just heard from Tracey, four kids, became a homeopath on the back of thinking of whether she should have her first child immunised. And this is on the back of us being the ‘Dirty [...]
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