Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Dear Crispian and Neil, Dear British guys with a great idea and a hell of a lot of talent and kindness for doing this, Dear Übermenschen, Look, I’ve seen the ‘denial of service’ missive given in response to the unfortunate Mr Gervais. I agree with your decision. I’m actually fine with him not being included. [...]
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I love being in NZ – I use Air NZ when traveling and have stopped off in Auckland a number of times when heading to the USA. This, however, is a brand-new find for me and I seriously hope that other conferences will follow the New Zealand Skeptics example! They just had their conference, held [...]
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Submission for March Scientiae – ‘Who inspires you or motivates you? Who would you call your role models, at any stage of your career?’ “I wanted my cancer to mean something. When I heard about a clinical trial testing a new treatment for breast cancer that offered better chances of survival with less of the [...]
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Currently in Canberra! Will tell you later of my presentation and the assorted skeptic-conference-related hijinks – Paul Willis has the best black bondage jacket which I borrowed for the dinner – but after listening to the empowering efforts of Loretta Marron, I just MUST point out this article in the Weekend Australian: Complementary medicine research [...]
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Earlier I blogged about Australian Skeptic of the Year, Loretta Marron, and her lecture at the Hobart Skeptics conference about the continuing battle against ‘weight loss drug’ claims. Now the USA has discovered a little something about a popular company – Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals: A federal court jury on Friday found the owner of a [...]
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