pseudoscience

Welcome to the 'pseudoscience' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'pseudoscience'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “pseudoscience”

• Wrong For 200 Years (Because You Let It)

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 138
  "It should come as no surprise that a strong advocate of a religion like homeopathy would have difficulty constructing a logical argument; the acceptance of logical arguments would lead to the rejection of his religion, and,...that is clearly unacceptable." -- PalMD , still kicking Samuel Hahnemans dead "cult" ...
  10 hours ago

• Chopra Mangles Quantum Mechanics – Again

  
  NeuroLogica Blog — Authority: 597
  Deepak Chopra has made a career out of misunderstanding quantum mechanics (QM) – and through his popularity, confusing the public. Like many others, he has found a superficial way in which to interpret quantum mechanics to make is seem as if it is congruent with Eastern metaphysics. And now he has done it again , ...
  15 hours ago

• Retrospectacle: Skeptical Inquirers Vs Jenny McCarthy in Australia’s ‘Women’s Day’

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 428
  What is Retrospectacle? This series of posts are a kind of Thomas Dolby-inspired ‘retrospectacle’ of earlier popular entries from my site, which will fill in during the time that I am busy working for the rest of this month. This is for Sara Jane. Now that I have your attention – let’s have a ...
  1 day ago

• An abuse of abuse?

  
  Halfway There — Authority: 113
  The happy ending that isnt Do you like stories about determined individuals who struggle against long odds and unremitting opposition until they eventually win through to victory and vindication? So do I. Usually. The Sacramento Bee carried a story on Friday, November 13, 2009, about a 29-year-old woman who ...
  1 day ago

• Government-approved woo in Canada

  
  Lousy Canuck — Authority: 136
  This may affect only Ontario at the moment, but Bill 139, which has undergone two readings and is poised for a third, looks as though it’s poised to pass. This bill would allow naturopaths the ability to prescribe drugs in much the same way that science-based health practitioners do presently. [t]he Ontario ...
  2 days ago

• EmoTrance: The New Name for Bullshit

  
  Ministry of Truth — Authority: 545
  I learned a new word this week – EmoTrance.EmoTrance is the new name for bullshit.In the last week, its received no less than two articles worth of coverage in The Times’ educational supplements; one, a vomit inducing piece of brainless advertorial by Adi Bloom, an arts correspondent with a taste for ‘kitsch’ ...
  3 days ago

• Planets come and planets go, but not in 2012

  
  Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 117
  Image Credit: NASA / Don Davis Today, the movie 2012 opens in theaters.  The basic plot is that the Mayan calendar ends on the solstice in 2012, portending doom for all on this planet.  Im not going to see the movie, as Im not a fan of disaster movies (except, perhaps, the Samuel L. Bronkowitz classic " ...
  3 days ago

• Understanding pseudoscience and New Age ideas - by Todd Daigneault - Helium

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 466
  Pseudoscience and New age ideas are in many ways inextricably linked. Pseudoscience, a banner that some scientists wrap around all things that go bump in the night. New Age ideas are the banner that the New Age movement wraps around everything that goes bump in the night, too. Some scientists demand absolute proof and ...
  4 days ago

• Application For Seekers 2012 (Please Hire Mil Millington And His Girlfriend For This Show)

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 428
  Seekers 2012 – Documentary series for the History Channel, surrounding the Mayan prediction that 2012 will be the END OF DAYS as well as other unexplained phenomena. What We Are Looking For: Male & Female Investigators who are scientists, explorers, or adventurers ...
  4 days ago

• Warming Up For World Government

  
  Barely A Blog — Authority: 131
  I have only a minor quibble with the superlative Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in his dire warnings about the imminent loss of US sovereignty: “The US Constitution is the thin edge of the wedge that has allowed U.S. governments to cede the rights ...
  5 days ago

• Mythbustin the first manned rocket flight

  
  The Original Rocket Dungeon — Authority: 437
  I hear the Mythbusters will be investigating Lagari Hasan Celebi who legend says made the first successful manned rocket flight.  The Chinese Emperor who flew in a rocket chair was probably earlier...but wasnt successful.  My prediction is that the Mythbusters crash test dummy had a bad day. Anyway it works out, ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 153
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Randi Testing Reindeer Aerodynamics

  
  Friendly Atheist by @hemantmehta — Authority: 688
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Iraqi Army Using… Dowsing Rods?!

  
  Friendly Atheist by @hemantmehta — Authority: 688
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• The Concert For Darwin

  
  SPANISH INQUISITOR — Authority: 113
  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  ...
  1 week ago

• "Thomas Edison has said The doctor of the future will give no medicines. "

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 735
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Astronomical Pseudoscience and the 2012 Hoax

  
  The Urban Astronomer — Authority: 115
  With the imminent release of the movie "2012" there is a blitz of pseudoscience on the internet that is helping to market the movie but is also unnecessarily fueling fears of "Doomsday." My view is that good science fiction is fun and entertaining, but the movie 2012 has opened a new chapter in viral marketing and the ...
  1 week ago

• Stupid Creationist Arguments 4: Not So Irreducible Complexity

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 117
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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
  1 week ago

Comments about pseudoscience