Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Thanks to Bruce M. Hood, author of ‘Supersense’, there’s been some regular blog posts on this most ridiculous (and absolutely, unquestionably horrifically dangerous in what they claim and then fail to do) contraptions. First, it was awareness-raising through his post ‘Dowsing for Death’, which introduced the ADE-651, a product which ‘claims to detect concealed explosives, [...]
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Many, many thanks to Richard Saunders of the Skeptic Zone podcast and the Young Australian Skeptics for the following! Get a pdf here and print it out, pass it on and suggest for podcasts and other blog sites. “With the growing world-wide threat of Swine Flu (or the N5H1 virus) the public is alerted to [...]
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Sceptic’s Book Blog expands on the story: However, this is not the first time expensive “cosmeceuticals” have been declared a rip-off. In 2007, a consumer organisation in the UK known as Which? Magazine found skin care companies were “blinding consumers with science” using terms like nanoparticles, pentapeptides, lipopeptides and hyaluronic acid. These are all legitimate [...]
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Today, Dr Chris French, professor at Goldsmith’s Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at the University of London announced that: “The Guardian online’s science pages will, from this week onwards, be featuring regular monthly columns by Simon Singh, PZ Myers of Pharyngula blog, Andy Miah and me. Further details at The Guardian’s page at ‘And Now For [...]
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From The Inquisitr: The FBI raided New York based bridge lender Agape World Monday over an alleged $380 million ponzi scheme. Agape chief Nicholas Cosmo is accused of scamming $380 million out of thousands of Agape World clients with promises of high returns that couldn’t be met. Investors starting showing up at Agape World’s office [...]
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From ‘Dispatches From The Culture War‘: After trying to change their sullied public image by changing their name to Quixtar, Amway is now reversing course, retiring the new name and trying to resurrect the old Amway name and rebuild the business here… If you want to learn all about the Amway fraud, go to Eric [...]
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From I09: Obviously, the fake-psychic-turned-investigator from The Mentalist chucked a pretty lucrative job when he went straight. Today a San Francisco “psychic” named Lisa Marie Miller (pictured) was sentenced to two months in jail for sucking over $100 thousand out of a lovelorn woman. Miller convinced the woman she had a “curse” that could only [...]
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