Opinion: The Green Party and being a skeptic
Written by Shaun Sellars I’m going to talk about politics. Hold on… I promise it won’t be boring, and I promise it’ll be skeptical. Specifically, I’d like to talk about the Green Party....
Category: science
Doctors, Placebos and Damned Statistics!
Earlier this week there was a big media hoo-haa over a PLoS One published paper on placebos. The BBC lead with “’Most family doctors’ have given a patient a placebo drug” while the Daily...
Dung Beetles: Looking to the Stars!
This is from a couple of days ago, but I only just saw it and thought this is worthy of some words! Nice Hat… So, a group of scientists from The Universities of Lund...
Jenner: When hypothesis becomes theory & the skeptics of the day – Part 1
Happy death day Edward Jenner!! January 26th 2013, marks 190 years since the death of Edward Jenner in 1823. [1] About 30 years before that, in 1796, that same man made one of his...
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