Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
On Nov 10, 2010, bloggers around the world posted a message requesting other bloggers and readers to sign up to libel reform at www.libelreform.org/sign — you can read this post here: This week is the first anniversary of the report Free Speech is Not for Sale, which highlighted the oppressive nature of English libel law. [...]
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WAAHHH It’s on The Guardian website as a guest post! Absolutely thrilled to see the company I’m keeping – Leslie Cannold also has an article online! ‘Abortion is about balancing rights – religious medics don’t get the final say’. Do check it out! Many, many thanks to Martin Robbins and to Warren Bonett who made [...]
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Well done to those who made an effort to raise awareness of this issue – which includes Rhys Morgan! Wales Online reports: A TEENAGER fighting a campaign against a controversial medical treatment that has been found to pose serious health risks won a round of applause from Cardiff’s full council. Rhys Morgan, a 15-year-old from [...]
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Firstly, hello to a certain co-worker who said she’s checked out my site! You might even like to suggest something I could investigate for you. Simply pop in a comment at the end of this post. And hello to your husband as well. Sylvia Browne. What to say? After following her efforts to silence Robert [...]
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Please promote and support this article – “No, I Don’t Believe In God” by Alom Shaha. I consider it a great honor that I had Alom Shaha speak to me as a science communicator, for an early podcast interview I did: episode #22 of the Skeptic Zone with Alom Shaha. What I knew of him [...]
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Just on the heels of the most recent Token Skeptic podcast (where my opening question was : The media’s adoption of the word ’skeptic’ in conjunction with ‘climate change skeptics’ seems to be widespread and perhaps the public perception of the word will always link the two together. Is it possible this could change?) Adam [...]
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Well, I got back from the doctor’s on Friday where I ended up getting a few blood tests. The thing that amused me was how about a year ago, I got my MMR vaccination updated. Apparently the last blood test I did indicated that my immunity to measles had gone. So this time around, I [...]
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First, check out the news by Edzard Ernst over on the Guardian: “False assurances – The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council’s claims to regulate alternative medicine are misleading and dangerous”: …Is all this then just a farce, a waste of money and a exercise to please Prince Charles? No, I’m afraid it is worse than [...]
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