Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Personally? I’m sick to death of hearing about Power Balance Bands and the popularity of these particular dodgy products — I’ve even ‘unfollowed’ people off Twitter until they’ve stopped railing against them. Yawn. Because, to my mind, once Choice Magazine has pointed out the obvious: This so-called exercise-assisting “hologram” is nothing more than a pricey [...]
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I’m at the Skeptic Track room — about to watch Prof. Barbara Drescher, Richard Saunders, Dr Rachael Dunlop, Donna Mugavero and Tom Merritt talk about skepticism, scams and consumerism! Apparently there are a lot of Australians following the Live Stream, which you can find at http://www.skeptrack.org/watch-live. This is about the fifth panel of the day, [...]
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(‘Peter Garrett demoted after botched insulation program‘)
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New webseries on YouTube! This Science By Scams series is by Kat Akingbade and Derren Brown and investigates the science behind scams and apparently paranormal phenomena. From UK Skeptic: In a style not too dissimilar to Project Alpha from James Randi, Steve Shaw and Mike Edwards, the Science of Scams team published seven hoax recordings [...]
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Submission for March Scientiae – ‘Who inspires you or motivates you? Who would you call your role models, at any stage of your career?’ “I wanted my cancer to mean something. When I heard about a clinical trial testing a new treatment for breast cancer that offered better chances of survival with less of the [...]
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Funny of the day – Ben Goldacre catches “detox” scammer in a lie, live on BBC Radio 4! I was additionally amused to see the particular ‘detoxers’ on a Facebook group… oh dearie me, they didn’t expect this, I’m sure! Apparently in the interview, Nas Amir Ahmadi of detoxinabox.com tried to challenge the claims of [...]
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ThiefHunters In Paradise Blog: “Prepare to be conned” is the show’s subtitle. The cast is made up of four consummate con artists who manipulate, baffle, and social-engineer the audience until they don’t know what to believe. But let me emphasize: this is not a magic show…. For me, a card scoffer, Richard Turner is a [...]
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Psychology Today Blogs – you can find a YouTube version of Penn and Teller doing this: You see a lot of interesting things working the night shift in a sketchy neighborhood. I constantly saw people making bad decisions: drunk drivers, gang members, unhappy cops, and con men. In fact, I was the victim of a [...]
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