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Podblack Finds For 17th March 2010

by podblack on March 17, 2010

Happy St Patrick’s day – if you want to check out the St Patrick’s Day luck superstitions, read my post from last year: Luck Of The Irish And Other Reasons To Avoid The Pub Today.
Firstly, head over to the ‘I Am A Skeptic’ banners over at Skeptic.com!
You may notice that four women and one [...]

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“MPS URGE GOVERNMENT TO WITHDRAW NHS FUNDING AND MHRA LICENSING OF HOMEOPATHY”
Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy: Fourth Report of Session 2009–10 [PDF]
Press Release from Parliment

In a report published today, the Science and Technology Committee concludes that the NHS should cease funding homeopathy. It also concludes that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) [...]

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Vote For Me – Research Blogging Awards!

by podblack on February 3, 2010

For the past few years (dotted in amongst my posts of YouTube videos and my complaints about doing the ‘Wireless Waltz’ in conference rooms waving my laptop around, trying to get AirPort to pick up a signal)… I have blogged about various research interests and referenced a few papers.
It’s good fun to keep track of [...]

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I’m attending Perth Skeptics in the Park, with about a dozen people sitting around in the shade of a gorgeous Sunday, and I’m telling people about the 10:23 Campaign interview I just did for the Skeptic Zone podcast. If you haven’t checked it out, it features Marsh of the Merseyside Skeptics.
Since I’m keen on Perth [...]

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Since it was asked online in regards to the 10:23 campaign – which you should be checking out and signing up to support! – “has there been an effort to do a ‘mass suicide’ by homeopathic remedies before?”

Australian Skeptics 2004 Convention – Homeopathy
The Great Skeptic Attempted Mass Suicide Using Homeopathic Crap: Just how many [...]

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A claim that music can sound like ingesting a psychoactive plant!

My first inclination was to talk to Barbara of ICBS Everywhere, about whether ‘Salvia Divinorum Frequency Emulation’ might have something to do with synesthesia… but then as I read on, I discovered that it’s a ‘no’.
a Stunning Acoutic Frequency Emulation DOWNLOAD YOUR FREQUENCY TRACK [...]

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