Skeptism
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Fred Phelps, pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church , has invented his own version of Christianity best illustrated by his demonstrations at the gravesides of American servicemen, where he and his delusional followers (mostly relatives and friends of his) say that God killed the soldier to punish the United States for allowing homosexuality. "God Hates Fags" is his signature banner. Fred Phelps is offensive to everyone, conservative or liberal, or even just normal people not filled with hate and insanity.
Gallery of Wackos
Imagine if you woke up one morning and realized that you had dormant superhuman abilities that were waiting to be unleashed.
DNA Activation
Just bad taste
James Ball sent me the data for the Russian election vote counts this morning and asked me to test whether it deviates from Benford’s law, a test that can give a hint at whether numbers are the product of fraud. Posted below is my analysis, and also a check for last digit preference, which is another method for spotting sneakiness. Read the rest of this entry » Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 9 July 2011 Since I was a teenager, whenever I have a pivotal life event coming – an exam, or an interview – I perform a ritual.
Bad Science
The Quackometer -
The quackometer is a project based around the automation of debunking quack medicine on the web. The web is full of pages supporting dubious medical claims and inflated capabilities for cures.
In the unlikely event you haven’t read this weeks news about the banned “Gay Cure” bus adverts booked by the Core Issues Trust click here . Similarly if you haven’t read Lord Carey’s bigoted rant in the Telegraph click here . Finally I’ll take it as read that, like me, you know your Holy Grail verbatim.
Science, Reason and Critical Thinking
Call her the Awful Poo Lady, call her Dr Gillian McKeith PhD: she is an empire, a multi-millionaire, a phenomenon, a prime-time TV celebrity, a bestselling author.
What's wrong with Gillian McKeith by Ben Goldacre | Media | The Guardian
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Religion
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The Corpus Callosum is an occasional journal of armchair musings, by a suburban, reality-based, slightly-left-of-center guy, who reserves the right to be highly irregular at times.
The Panda's Thumb
Tennessee “monkey bill” passes legislatureCreationism n. The highest form of stupidity requiring the denial of vast swathes of converging empirical evidence born from the desire to retain a resolute and unfeasible belief in the literal meaning of a particular scripture.
The periodic table of irrational nonsense
Quackwatch
Our home-page hits reached 1 million on 3/28/00, 2 million on 7/20/01, 3 million on 9/8/02, 4 million on 9/16/03, 5 million on 8/19/04, 6 million on 6/6/05, 7 million on 2/4/06, 8 million on 1/21/07, 9 million on 2/6/08, 10 million on 7/16/09, and 11 million on 12/8/10. Portions of Quackwatch are updated several times a month. Most recent update: February 8, 2012. Site indexing is done daily at 5:00 AM All articles on this Web site except government reports are copyrighted. Single copies can be downloaded for personal education; other uses without authorization are illegal.....The founding father of modern vibrational medicine was Dr. Albert Abrams (1863-1924), the "dean of twentieth century charlatans." * Abrams called his healing method radionics and claimed that he was able to detect distinct energies or vibrations (radiation) being emitted from healthy and diseased tissue in all living things. He invented devices that allegedly could measure this energy (vibration, radiation) and he created a system for evaluating vibrations as signs of health or disease.>> more sample the Skeptic's Dictionary for Kids
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Because I am at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago, between the meetings, working on a policy statement, working on a manuscript, and various other miscellaneous tasks, I alas was unable to produce a post worthy of the quality normally expected by SBM readers. Fortunately, Lorne Trottier, who’s done a great job for us twice before , was able to step in again with this great post about “safe” cell phone cases. Speaking of the manufactroversy over whether cell phone radiation causes brain cancer, there’s a session at the AACR that I’ll have to try to attend entitled Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer? Who knows? It might be blogging material. I also might post something later that those of you who know of my not-so-super-secret other blog might have seen before.