science reporting

Dear Quadrant, I think I’ll attempt a pseudoscience article: kind of the Sokal hoax in reverse. Don’t get me wrong: I liked the Sokal prank as much as Windschuttle did. Showing up hogwash from any ideological stand is a valuable exercise. But I think Australia needs the opposite experiment. From ‘Diary of a Hoax’, hosted [...]

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Dear Digital Cuttlefish, I wasn’t going to blog today. I’m finishing off an article; I have two others in mind; I have a stats meeting tomorrow and then I’m running off to dance class straight after. I also have a lot of Skeptic Zone things to finish… It’s busy, busy, busy! I wasn’t going to [...]

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Guess What Acupuncture? No Go For IVF!

by podblack on July 9, 2008

Ah, research, I love it. Like today’s inbox – if you’re a teen girl who is on the internet too much and drink alcohol, it adversely influences your health! Or maybe you’d like to check out some punk-rock robots who pogo for science? “The robot brain, for want of a better word, was played lots [...]

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