Talking to the public about cell phones, safety, and cancer risks - Boing Boing.

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When what an acupuncture study shows is much more interesting than what acupuncture believers think it shows.

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Thanks to Neil Gaiman for posting this video with an explanation of the Psi Wheel parlor trick. What a cool trick this is!

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Below is an embed of an excellent video introduction to critical thinking. Brian dunning has released this video under Creative Commons. It’s free to distribute, so you can download the movie here, where you can even get an ISO file, if you want to burn it to a DVD that will play in your home system. Niiiice. I’d mail you the movie, but it’s over a ( Read more... )

Here are some interesting facts, presented at the recent Amazing Meeting in Vegas, about some of the origins of the current fears about vaccines.



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In which I rant.

I just stumbled across a link to an article by one Frank Lipman, MD in which he explains why he does not recommend his patients get the upcoming swine flu vaccine. So, I thought I’d read that and see what he had to say. And in part his arguments were understandable, even if I couldn’t agree with them. Statements like: “At this ( Read more... )

Hey look! Here’s an illustrated explanation of how homeopathy works. It all makes sense, now.

It can be a bit hard to read, because it is rampant with typos and dropped words within the illustrations, but then, photo editors don’t have notoriously good spell-checkers, do they?

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In this article, Dr. Harriet Hall* takes a look at some common misconceptions and outright lies about swine flu and vaccines in general. Well worth a look.
* Dr Harriet Hall, MD is a retired family physician and Air Force Colonel living in Puyallup, Washington. She writes about alternative medicine, pseudoscience, quackery, and critical thinking. ( Read more... )

Get in the fookin’ sack!



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I like dry British humor. This video isn’t the best example of it, but it’s pretty funny, nonetheless.

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via a BoingBoing post from Cory Doctorow: “”Homeopathic A&E,” a sketch from the British comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look invites us to imagine an emergency room (A&E is British for Accidents and Emergencies, the UK equivalent of ER), as ( Read more... )