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• Ben Goldacre reviews the year ...

  
  The Panda's Thumb — Authority: 528
  … in bad science in the UK . Surely the U.S., the country with Senator Jim “climate change is a hoax” Inhofe , the anti-vaccination movement , and, of course, the ever-popular Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture , can out-do those stodgy Brits in the bad science department! Post your best ...
  16 hours ago

• Steorn: still a steaming pile of crap

  
  The Plummet Onions — Authority: 122
  Overnight someone posted a comment on one of my previous posts about Steorn , an Irish company who claim they have a device that can create more energy than it uses, and how they’ve recently released their technology that does this, called Orbo. Let’s forget that they tried to demonstrate it a few years ago in ...
  2 days ago

• Comedy gold in parliament and tragedy from Prince of Wales: editorial in British Medical Journal

  
  DC's Improbable Science — Authority: 106
  The Yuletide edition of the BMJ carries a lovely article by Jeffrey Aronson, Patent medicines and secret remedies . ( BMJ 2009;339:b5415 ). I was delighted to be asked to write an editorial about it, In fact it proved quite hard work, because the BMJ thought it improper to be too rude about the royal family, or ...
  2 days ago

• Steorn launches Orbo

  
  The Plummet Onions — Authority: 122
  I’ve blogged about Irish company Steorn – who claim their Orbo device breaks physics and produces more energy than it uses – before. I’m told they’ve finally released Orbo. I’m on my way to work now, but will look for info later with keen interest and blog something about what’s up. If their claims ...
  3 days ago

• Information tribunal rejects appeal by University of Central Lancashire. Freedom of Information wins!

  
  DC's Improbable Science — Authority: 106
  A momentous decision was promulgated (as lawyers say) by the Information Tribunal on December 8th 2009.  It marks a step forward in Freedom of Information about how universities spend your money. It has taken 3.5 years to get to this point. Perhaps now there will be an end to the attempts of every single ...
  1 week ago

• Investigating whether UK taxes should continue to fund homeopathy

  
  The Plummet Onions — Authority: 122
  Last week the UK parliamentary health committee was looking into whether the NHS should continue to fund homeopathy (a ludicrous idea, since homeopathy is useless). Bad Science ’s Ben Goldacre wrote about it : The man from Boots [the chemist] said he had no evidence that homeopathy pills worked, but he sold them ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wifi is not a health risk

  
  Richard's Kingdom — Authority: 112
  T he Daily Mail has once again disgraced itself by promoting the scientifically discredited view that wifi networks are harmful to health. On November 19 it published an article by Alasdair Philips which said some remarkable things about electromagnetic radiation. Under the headline “Is electro smog causing your ...
  3 weeks ago

• Age of Autism to Autism Families: Make your children suffer

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 131
  Your pretty red house is engulfed in a roaring fire. You keep feeding the fire. Maybe petrol will help. Pour it on. Maybe some oil. Pour that on too. You don’t know. Nobody knows. Some guy you met on the internet tells you he’s a fireman and that the best way to stop a fire is to try and smother it with bone dry ...
  3 weeks ago

• Agreement over the film 2012

  
  The Plummet Onions — Authority: 122
  Here’s my brother’s opinion of the film 2012 . Here’s what reviewers think of 2012 . Here’s Scienceblogs ‘ Greg Laden’s comments on the scientific foundations 2012 ’s story . Posted in badscience, film, science Tagged: 2012 sucks
  3 weeks ago

• US Plans to Ban Irish Coffee….

  
  Why Dont You Blog? — Authority: 416
  Echoing the prohibition that hung round the great depression, the current global economic crisis seems to be encouraging people to ban things, almost at random. From New Scientist : THE US Food and Drug Administration is unimpressed by the fad for drinks that contain a double hit – alcohol and caffeine. Unless ...
  4 weeks ago

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