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More Science Bloggers On Dore And The Complaint To The ASA

by podblack on December 18, 2009

Just a quick late-night/very-early-morning-whip around for all of you keeping track of the ongoing Dore saga: Holford Watch, whose original complaint was upheld – ASA: Dore advert is “misleading” and breaches rules on “truthfullness” and “substantiation”. Brainduck‘s blog is a MUST READ – it is astounding how much grace-under-pressure this blogger produces while keeping up with [...]

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Personally, In This Heat, I’m Just Denying The Existence Of Snow

by podblack on December 17, 2009

First, just a quick reminder to everyone out there regarding Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun and how it’s now going to help an autism charity. Regarding skeptics and climate change, I am immediately reminded of the Australian Skeptics National conference in Adelaide, 2008, which featured a ‘climate debate’ between professors Ian Plimer and [...]

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Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All

by podblack on March 2, 2008

I was first introduced to this book thanks to a review in The Times – Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All by Rose Shapiro. The simplest experiment can have the most disturbing result. Type “cure for cancer alternative medicine” into Google and you get 1,900,000 pages. “Cure for cancer chemotherapy” brings up [...]

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