Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Thanks to ‘bastardsheep’ for this one: TAM (The Amazing Meeting) is coming to Australia this year, the last weekend in November. The first official lineup lineup of speakers has just been officially announced: James Randi, DJ Grothe, SGU, Brian Dunning, George Hrab, Dr Eugenie Scott, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and MC Dr Paul Willis. #TAMOz appears [...]
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Hah! It worked! A little while back I begged you fine readers to Vote For Me – Research Blogging Awards! And you did! What-the? Funniest Blog Finalists: Skeptic Wonder (RB page) Placebo Journal NCBI ROFL Deep Sea News (RB page) Supernova Condensate (RB page) Mauka to Makai (RB page) Good, Bad, and Bogus (RB page) [...]
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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 [...]
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NPR — Story Of Book-Writing Coma Patient Debunked A few months ago, we reported on a man in Belgium named Rom Houben. He was said to be writing a book more than 20 years after doctors concluded that a car crash had left him in a vegetative state. He gained international fame for supposedly revealing [...]
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“Don’t leave the duck there. It’s totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it’ll have much more fun.” Sleep Talkin’ Man. This blog-post is inspired by the fact that I just fell solidly out of bed and onto a book. Nice hardcover edition of Phillip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ omnibus. Seriously ouch-y. I woke up [...]
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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 [...]
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Just wanted to mention it in passing. Because every step towards curing cancers of all sorts… is fantastic, as far as I’m concerned. The paper is in Science — “The Tasmanian Devil Transcriptome Reveals Schwann Cell Origins of a Clonally Transmissible Cancer“. There’s three Tasmanian Devils at the zoo in my city, all brothers (because [...]
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