EDM 908 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE REPORT ON HOMEOPATHY That this House expresses concern at the conclusions of the Science and Technology Committee’s Report, Evidence Check on Homeopathy; notes that the Committee took only oral evidence from a limited number of witnesses, including known critics of homeopathy Tracy Brown, the Managing Director of Sense About [...]

Or possibly three. Or four. Anyway, some excellent write-ups of the encounter between Simon Singh (huzzah!) and the BCA (boo!) today at the Royal Courts of Justice are available from Jack of Kent, Crispian Jago and Padraig Reidy at Index on Censorship, and I very definitely commend them to the house. I want to quote [...]

The bat-shit craziness of some people never fails to amuse me. A correspondent has sent me a list of the ten planks of the Communist manifesto, and how they have been implemented in the USA, at libertyzone.com. They are, with my comments underneath each one: 1. Abolition of private property and the application of all [...]

Including: London for Secular Europe Protest (1:02) by James O’Malley (ft Peter Tatchell & EHF President David Pollock) Secularist of the Year (7:25) by Craig Lucas Camp Quest (16:55) by Crispian Jago Prince Charles & Royal Privilege (21:48) by Dave Cole Save The Rhinos for Douglas Adams (27:17) by Jon Treadway More at the Pod [...]

I am no expert on Niger – far from it – but given that the leader of the coup in this poor, isolated country is nigh-on unknown, I feel justified in making some comment. The facts, such as are available, are at the BBC News website. The article mentions the extraction of uranium at the [...]

Yesterday evening saw the Skeptics in the Pub (the skeptics being of London and the pub the Penderel’s Oak) to hear Martin J Robbins (twitter @mjrobbins), of layscience.net and the Guardian, talk on ‘the impossibility of debating homeopathy’. Martin has kindly agreed to send me the slides from his presentation and I will post them [...]

More at scienceblogs.com I hope that Desiree Jennings recovers from whatever ails her. However, the moral of the story is that science reporting is still abysmally bad and the plural of anecdote is not data. xD.