Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I wrote the following while attending the session and only now have a chance to edit and post the thing in its entirety. The Doric Room is small. Frackin’ small. I noticed this upon first scoping out the place and thought that one of the other venue rooms would be used. For the entire time [...]
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Just breaking my silence for this short piece of important news — I’ve been following this case on and off during its duration — if you’ve missed the main details, there’s been a few resources that are worth reading. Thanks to Leslie Cannold for this find of a basic summary via YouTube: Dr Cannold’s Twitter [...]
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This is Rhys – he’s 15 years old and has Crohn’s disease. “It appears a great number of the people who make up Crohn’s forum are in love with so called alternative medicines.” This short ‘tweet-vid’ discusses what happened to him on a Crohn‘s Disease forum board and attitudes he’s come across (he’s also a [...]
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(CNN) –California Ban On Same Sex Marriage Struck Down: The California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage Thursday, saying sexual orientation, like race or gender, “does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights.” In a 4-3 120-page ruling issue, the justices wrote that “responsibly to [...]
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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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Today Simon Singh announces that he is applying to appeal the judge’s recent pre-trial ruling in this case, in conjunction with the launch of this support campaign to defend the right of the pubic to read the views of scientists and writers. In a statement published today, over 100 people from the worlds of science, [...]
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Govt deferred implementation of new law – NZ Herald: Prime Minister John Key has announced the controversial Section 92A law, which has been widely condemned by internet users, is to be delayed. It will go on hold until March 27 while work is carried out on a voluntary code of practice. If no solution is [...]
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PodBlack Cat
Breaking News About Simon Singh Court Case!
by podblack on October 14, 2009
I’ll let the Twitter-power of Jack of Kent tell you the story as it happened! Head to his site at http://jackofkent.blogspot.com to learn more from here on. Please use today’s success to encourage others to sign up to support libel reform. There is also a brief summary at the site of Crispian Jago (who does [...]
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