Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I envy the Digital Cuttlefish. You may note that I often post links to their site – not just because they are incredibly insightful as a contemporary and astoundingly topical blogger (which they are), but because they are unique as a skeptic poet, a versifying science blogger who can intelligently tackle a range of topics [...]
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Many, many thanks to Sean the Blogonaut for the alert – here’s the scoop. Earlier on in this blog, I wrote of the Mercy Ministries and Gloria Jeans case, an entry called ‘A Coffee Shop in my Town‘. The article is due to questions about the former editor of young women’s magazines (Marina Go, from [...]
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Jack Of Kent – In an incredible press release published either yesterday or earlier today, the British Chiropractic Association made the serious and completely groundless accusation that Simon Singh had been motivated by malice in writing his original article…
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Hi to all the Guardian readers / fans of Tim Minchin out there! Yes, there are quite a few Tim Minchin blog-posts with lots of information on this site, since I was one of the first skeptic podcasters to interview him (for the TANK Vodcast, back in 2008). After that, we had a four-part lengthy [...]
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Just a quick note – I’ve just updated the permalinks to the site (e.g: instead of http://podblack.com/?p=1202 it now reads http://podblack.com/2009/01/tim-minchins-storm-now-featured-online/ and so forth). There’s also a few other plugins that I’m playing around with, but if you have any major 404s, zip me an email or just pop in a comment? Purrrrrrr….
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Due to a family health matter that looks like it’s going to continue for the next month and possibly beyond, blogging will be sporadic over the coming weeks. I’ve written previously about deconstructing one of my posts and that is still on schedule, but I’m not entirely certain how active I’ll be after that. This [...]
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Now being passed around on Twitter – new news about the AVN and Meryl Dorey being challenged for their posing as “health service providers” who “provid(e) health education services to the public” for the purposes of the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 (NSW). The document, which can be found as a pdf – ‘Complaint to [...]
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