Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Now, Joel, Andy and Jack have all begun asking questions on Twitter – so, I have started asking more questions myself about the Dr Richard Wiseman ‘Psychic Twitter Science Experiment’ or whatever he and New Scientist are calling it. Psych-twitters? Anyway, it’s the one I noticed back in this post, Twitter If You’re Psychic? Or [...]
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Book review in the New Scientist: In this much-needed book, physicist Victor Stenger isolates and then debunks the claims of two kinds of “quantum belief”. One he calls “quantum theology” because it offers quantum physics as a way for God to act in the world without violating natural laws. The second is “quantum spirituality”, which [...]
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Gah, spent all day doing qual in a school, about an hour’s drive from the city. So, the second half of my review on ‘The One’ will have to go up tomorrow. But I did find something today that relates to a comment I’ve had on my mind for a while – from The New [...]
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I hope you’ve read the book ‘Trick or Treatment’ – now you can check out their challenge! First, a great article in the SMH on ‘The Case against Cure Alls’: It is a very timely tome, with the Federal Government considering a toughening of requirements for Australia’s $2 billion complementary medicine industry to disclose the [...]
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Sorry, just being sarcastic… Apparently, NO ONE BEHAVES NORMALLY IN CYBERSPACE. Abstract. In spite of the Internet’s phenomenal growth and social impact, many aspects of the collective communication behavior of its users are largely unknown. Understanding the structure and dynamics of the behavioral networks that connect users with each other and with services across the [...]
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What am I doing? I am taking a bunch of paranormal belief scales together and whittling them down. Whittly whittly. Busy bunny, that’s me. For what reason? I’ll have to let you know… later. Heh – apparently we’re a very noisy planet? Who could guess that… Earth ‘noise’ could attract alien invaders: For 40 years, [...]
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Richard Saunders, on his many jaunts around Sydney, sends me this news broadcast: “This one is God’s” — yes, that’s what it says about that planet, thanks to the billboard outside All Saints church in Petersham. Huh. Just when the BBC reports that Astronomers have discovered what could be ‘the youngest planet’: An embryonic planet [...]
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Remember the saga of the PEAR cables and Randi calling them out on their quality claims? Well, claims are one thing but… …cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed “audiophiles” recently couldn’t tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers. Yeah, coat hangers. [...]
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