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• The Australian newspaper loses any last shreds of scientific credibility

  
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  Just in case anyone had any lingering doubts that The Australian newspaper has completely lost credibility when it comes to science, environment editor Graham Lloyd delivers the decisive blow  (paywall). Check out the full story at either of these: Graham Readfearn:  The Australian Brings You The Climate Science ...
  1 week ago

• Will Smith must be stopped

  
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  He has a new movie coming out this summer, After Earth . It looks awful, but then, that’s what I’ve come to expect from Will Smith’s Sci-Fi outings. Jebus. Anyone remember that abomination, I, Robot ? How about I Am Legend ? I steer clear of these movies with a high concept and a big name star, because ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bad Science by @bengoldacre lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, evil pharma and more

  
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  How do we know if a treatment works, or if something causes cancer? Can the claims of homeopaths ever be as true – or as interesting as the improbable research into the placebo effect? Who created the MMR hoax? Do journalists understand science? Why do we seek scientific explanations for social, personal and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Poll Shows Widespread Conspiracy Theory Belief By Americans

  
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  This may be old news (about a month) but it is still worth posting.   A poll was recently conducted by Public Policy Polling of Americans on the topic of conspiracy theories.   The number really do not surprise me very much.  If anything, it shows a few conspiracy theories are LESS popular than I might have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Teen Charged For School Science Project Gone Bad: Where’s the Justice In Zero-Tolerance?

  
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  This right here is why America’s public schools stay failing black children: A 16-year-old Florida student with a rep for being one of the smart, good girls in her classes was taken away from her... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 weeks ago

• Is The Paleo Diet a Fantasy Diet?

  
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  Well, according to one evolutionary biologist, yes … Four years ago, biology professor Marlene Zuk was attending a conference on evolution and diseases of modern environments. She sat in on a presentation by Loren Cordain, author of “The Paleo Diet” and a leading guru of the current craze for emulating the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Oh, no, not the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis again!

  
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  I think BAHFest — the festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses — has been made entirely redundant. It’s an event to mock the absurdly adaptationist hypotheses put forward by some scientists, and it’s intended to be extravagantly ridiculous. But then, you look at some ideas that are inexplicably popular among ...
  3 weeks ago

• Musings from the mind of a mouse

  
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  Casey Luskin is such a great gift to the scientific community. The public spokesman for the Discovery Institute has a law degree and a Masters degree (in Science! Earth Science, that is) and thinks he is qualified to analyze papers in genetics and molecular biology, fields in which he hasn’t the slightest smattering ...
  3 weeks ago

• My evidence to the Science and Tech Select Committee inquiry on missing trial data

  
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  The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee are currently looking at the problem of clinical trial results being withheld from doctors and patients (partly, the committee says, in response to Bad Pharma, which is heartening). A clear, thoughtful report and policy recommendations from this ...
  3 weeks ago

• No, there is not a vaccine for autism!

  
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  Many of my skeptical and pro-science friends are extremely passionate about the issue of autism and vaccines.   The scientific data indicates, very compellingly, that vaccines do not cause autism.  So when a press release came out claiming that a new vaccine could actually reduce autism, many jumped on and posted ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reinhart and Rogoff Get the Colbert Treatment

  
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  Watch : The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes , Indecision Political Humor , Video Archive The follow-up segment has Stephen Colbert interviewing Thomas Herndon, the UMass econ grad student whose term paper on replicating R&R; eventually led to the once-influential papers ...
  3 weeks ago

• How vaccine scares respect local cultural boundaries.

  
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  I was on Newsnight this evening, discussing the measles outbreak in Swansea, and how we can get people vaccinated with MMR when they’ve previously refused. In my view: prevention is better than cure, it’s hard to reverse a scare story once the toothpaste is out of the tube, and we must innoculate ourselves against ...
  4 weeks ago

• Vaccines and Autism: Scientific Mis-Reporting in the Media

  
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  Smallpox Vaccine – Source: CDC Repeat after me: Vaccines. Do. Not. Cause. Autism. It all started in the late nineties, when a doctor, Andrew Wakefield , published a paper in the Lancet  linking the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) to autism. In fact, the study did not make this claim at all, the ...
  4 weeks ago

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