Archive for the 'Skepticism' Category

 

Anyone know anything about ARMA?

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

The British Chiropractic Association website informs me that The British Chiropractic Association is proud to be a member organisation of ARMA, the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance. ARMA is the UK umbrella association bringing together support groups, professional bodies and research organisations in the field of arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions. click here to go to [...]

 

The Vaccine War: PBS Frontline

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

An excellent documentary from PBS about anti-vax. More information on Jenny McCarthy and vaccines in general at JennyMcCarthyBodyCount.com.

 

Interview with Clive Hamilton: Dave at the @PodDelusion

Monday, April 19th, 2010

I was able to interview Clive Hamilton, author of Affluenza, on his new book, Requiem for a Species at the Pod Delusion. Although it is a book about climate change, it is more about why we have failed to heed the many warnings about where we’re headed and why we deny, in many cases, hard [...]

 

Freedom of speech FTW #SinghBCA

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The British Chiropractic Association have, according to Simon Singh’s barrister, served a notice of withdrawal. Brief note from the excellent Jack of Kent, doubtlessly with more to follow, indicates that the question of dollars and cents is still up in the air. I’d just like to add one thing: The British Chiropractic Association happily promotes [...]

 

Free speech for the win #singhbca

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

“I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had, and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning among them was brought; …. that nothing had been there written now [...]

 

EDM908 redux

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

So far as I am concerned, the seventy signatories of Early Day Motion No. 908 (Science and Technology Committee Report on Homeopathy), at the very best, have woefully inadequate science education for the position they occupy. I am particularly disappointed to see some MPs who, for the most part, I respect on this list of [...]

 
 

A foreword to the Gideon Bible?

Monday, March 8th, 2010

As you may or may not be aware, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort published an edition of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species with a fifty-page creationist introduction, including such gems as “Adolf Hitler took Darwin’s evolutionary philosophy to its logical conclusions.” “…Darwin was a racist.” “Darwin believed that women were not as competent as [...]

 
 

Idiots' roll call

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

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 [...]