Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The following list is the complete collection of scientifically controlled, double-blind studies which have conclusively demonstrated the efficacy of homeopathy.
Twitter is still finding its feet within our culture and so there tends to be a lot of weird reactions that pop up. We have already seen the Twitter joke trial of Paul Chambers, a chap who when faced with an airport delay due to lack of snow tweeted, “Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. … Read more
Richard A. Muller has an article in today’s New York Times about his conversion from Climate change denier to acceptance of the reality of man made climate change. Who? He is a noted American professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and is also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He explains his conversion like this … Three … Read more
There are stories now circulating in the media regarding a very dramatic ice melt it Greenland during the past week. As reported by the BBC … Scientists said the “unprecedented” melting took place over a larger area than has been detected in three decades of satellite observation. Melting even occurred at Greenland’s coldest and highest … Read more
Yes, it is almost Olympic time, so obviously I have no idea what could have possibly inspired a team of researchers led by Dr Carl Heneghan of Oxford’s centre for evidence-based medicine to look into the claims made for sports related products. The BMJ has their study and it is entitled “Mythbusting sports and exercise products“. … Read more
There is an article in which Skype founder Jaan Tallinn claims …”Machines are becoming so intelligent that they could pose an existential threat“. Really!! OK, lets take a look. The article is in the Sidney Morning Herald . Claim: “Jaan Tallinn argues human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our … Read more