Pseudoscience

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• Ten Years Ago These Numbers Would’ve Been Typos (GenomeWeb News)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  Steven Salzberg has a post at Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience about a recent call for a project to sequence 10,000 vertebrate genomes . The proposal, from a consortium led by David Haussler and Stephen O’Brien, “is also the opening salvo in an effort to raise $50-100 million for the sequencing of these ...
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• Randi Testing Reindeer Aerodynamics

  
  Friendly Atheist by @hemantmehta — Authority: 687
  This post is by Jesse Galef – I just realized that instead of giving you a Friday Funny, I put up a post with that horrid “Letter From Hell” abomination .   My apologies. To remedy the situation, I give you James Randi in 1992 explaining why it is impossible to prove a negative : On style, Randi’s ...
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• Iraqi Army Using… Dowsing Rods?!

  
  Friendly Atheist by @hemantmehta — Authority: 687
  This post is by Jesse Galef – If you ever wanted a find situation desperately in need of more skepticism (and who hasn’t?), look no further: The Iraqi army is spending $16,500 to $60,000 per dowsing rod and trying to use them to detect explosives. This foolishness is not only a vast waste of money for what is ...
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• The Concert For Darwin

  
  SPANISH INQUISITOR — Authority: 112
  I had the privilege of attending a gathering last evening billed as celebrating  the double anniversaries of Darwin’s birthday (200)  and the first publication of On The Origin of Species (150). For those who are not aware of recent events in the evolution vs. intelligent design pseudo-controversy, Harrisburg PA  ...
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• "Thomas Edison has said The doctor of the future will give no medicines. "

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  Desiree Jennings is a 25-year old marketing manager (and Redskins "Ambassador cheerleader" ) who claims that in August she received a seasonal flu vaccine at a grocery store that caused a never-before-seen dystonia . While saturating media outlets and drawing the support of celebrity anti - vaccinationists ...
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• Ageless wisdom gets older

  
  Halfway There — Authority: 113
  One from the vaults Sometimes I describe myself as an archivist. Its a nice cover story. What I really am is a packrat who could easily turn into one of those eccentrics who lives in a tiny corner of his home because the rest of it is packed solid with junk. (In my case, “junk” would be books and papers and ...
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• Stupid Creationist Arguments 4: Not So Irreducible Complexity

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 118
  The irreducible complexity argument was developed by Michael Behe and first used in his book Darwin’s Black Box.The argument is that some biological systems are so complex that they can not have evolved though mutation and natural selection; it you remove one peace, it brakes, it no longer functions. Creationists ...
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• Death Before Homeopathys Dishonor - Again!

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 138
  "A homeopathic doctor has been arrested for killing his 55-year-old domestic help as she was allegedly blackmailing him after she saw him with a prostitute, police said Wednesday." -- The Times of India
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• The Mind Boggles… Skeptic Zone At Mind, Body, Wallet Festival!

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 429
  Don’t forget to join the Facebook group for the Skeptic Zone podcast - we have DOZENS of vodcast documentaries and films that we take and we’re always open to having people join us on our adventures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDJ5ME9dZwY ShareThis
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• Hydrogen – Oxygen Generator (HHO, Hydroxy Gas, Brown’s Gas)

  
  Green-Trust.Org — Authority: 125
  Producing hydrogen / oxygen mixed gas for the purposes of heating, cooking, and absorption refrigeration. There’s a lot of pseudoscience surrounding the production of a hydrogen oxygen gas mix. Sometimes called Brown’s gas, HHO, and other terms, it’s been assigned mythical properties by many. Joe Cell – ...
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• Okay, one thing before I go

  
  Blue Lyon — Authority: 131
  Thanks to Derek of Skepticality for posting this on FB.  As he put it: “Now, here is a case where woo can get people directly killed/dead.”The American military does not use the devices. “I don’t believe there’s a magic wand that can detect explosives,” said Maj. Gen. Richard J. Rowe Jr., who oversees ...
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• The Truth about Astrology – News24

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 454
  The Truth about AstrologyNews24Astrology is one of the most bizarre forms of pseudoscience around, yet it has a following in the hundreds of millions. …read the full article
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• Youll Understand Homeopathy If You Understand Einstein

  
  Reporting on a Revolution — Authority: 485
  ....Homeopathy - can it get more stupid than this...? Warning: Advanced degree in physics and chemistry required to follow this discussion: Now you know why those white pills pack so much punch! They are literally powder kegs of energy.
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• Bizarre Science Lesson From A Behavioral Optometrist

  
  Better Health — Authority: 600
  Charlene Werner is getting a lot of attention she probably did not anticipate or desire. She is the star of a YouTube video in which she explains the scientific basis of homeopathy. Before you watch it, make sure you are sitting down, relax, and brace yourself for an onslaught of profound scientific illiteracy ...
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• British Company sells $60,000 Dowsing Rods to Iraq as ‘Explosives Detectors’

  
  Ministry of Truth — Authority: 571
  Arthur C Clarke once famously noted that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’. Were he still alive today he might also have observed that magic, when dressed up in sufficiently advanced technobabble, can be readily mistaken for science.Tuesday’s New York Times carried this quite ...
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• Teaching Human Evolution In Pakistan Can Be Dangerous

  
  Reporting on a Revolution — Authority: 485
  Kenneth Chang of New York Times has written an interesting summary on the teaching and acceptance of evolution across Muslim countries and among Muslim immigrants in many western nations. Atomic physicist Pervez. A Hoodbhoy went through a dramatic moment while lecturing at a university in Pakistan: Pervez A. ...
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• The Bomb-Sniffing Gadget Thats (Definitely Not) Saving Iraq [Pseudoscience]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  The promise of the ADE 651 is seductive: a handheld detector, which susses out bombs, guns, drugs, and human bodies from up to a kilometer away. And the Iraqi military swears by it! One problem: It doesnt seem to work . To be able to instantly detect contraband like this would be a gamechanger in Iraq, where the ...
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• The Bomb-Sniffing Gadget That’s (Definitely Not) Saving Iraq [Pseudoscience]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 560
    The promise of the ADE 651 is seductive: a handheld detector, which susses out bombs, guns, drugs, and human bodies from up to a kilometer away. And the Iraqi military swears by it! One problem: It doesn’t seem to work . Read more here: The Bomb-Sniffing Gadget That’s (Definitely Not) Saving Iraq ...
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• The Bomb-Sniffing Gadget That’s (Definitely Not) Saving Iraq [Pseudoscience]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 560
    The promise of the ADE 651 is seductive: a handheld detector, which susses out bombs, guns, drugs, and human bodies from up to a kilometer away. And the Iraqi military swears by it! One problem: It doesn’t seem to work Read more: The Bomb-Sniffing Gadget That’s (Definitely Not) Saving Iraq [Pseudoscience]
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• What are the goals of Skepticism 2.0?

  
  The Lippard Blog — Authority: 510
  Yesterday I listened to D.J. Grothes interview with Ben Radford on the Point of Inquiry podcast about the latest issue of the Skeptical Inquirer (November/December 2009) about "Skepticism 2.0," the bottom-up grassroots expansion of the skeptical movement through Internet communications tools like blogs, ...
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