Never mind that he wasn’t even born, add her to the many victims on the Obama Death List, which miraculously includes the name of a man who was also apparently part of the Clinton Body Count 10 years earlier. (That… Read More ›
skepticism
– the rigorous methodology summed up by Carl Sagan as a Baloney Detection Kit
HealthEd’s “Platinum Package”: The pharmaceutical industry and medical fauxducation.
Last week, I wrote about the Allergan-sponsored “independent” Continuing Medical Education (CME) video lectures that dropped into my mailbox. The gossamer-disguised advertisement promoted Allergan’s Lap-Band bariatric surgery product. The Lap-Band is Allergan’s fastest-growing money-spinner, with sales up 35.5% on last… Read More ›
Visual language: evangelical outreach department
What make you of this tract’s cover image? It intrigued me enough to lay out 50c at the religious bookshop, anyway. Note how the subject is dressed in a very urban metrosexual style, with his earrings and his goatee. What… Read More ›
There’s a new dating service around, and it smells rather strongly of woo-woo
Firstly, how creepy is the company logo? Secondly, this interview shows that they’ve actually been around since last year, so it’s not new-new. Thirdly, let’s give this chap Eric Holzle credit for at least renovating the old idea of computerised… Read More ›
Various topics I’d like to blog on if I had more time
So I’ll link you to other ozbloggers who’ve done it already! Edited to add: if there’s something you were intending to blog but haven’t got around to, or wish you had blogged but somebody else said it superbly first so… Read More ›
“My Beautiful Mummy” book: Newsweek beat-up sucks most in
A dementedly objectifying book, aimed at kids, about why “Mummy” might want to have plastic surgery was profiled in Newsweek recently, and got a lot of people hot under the collar: WhatAreWeTeachingOurChildren, ThisWillCorruptTheValuesOfOurYouth, etc etc etc. Now, the author of… Read More ›
Dodgy science journalism week
That old “really the earth is cooling and we’re about to have an ice age” argument gets another outing, this time in The Australian courtesy of Phil “Australia’s first astronaut” Chapman. Greensblog comprehensively debunks his arguments, which basically rest on… Read More ›
One more for the tigtog-is-a-freak category
You are a dog Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can’t be human. The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!
I’ll never look at Tony Hill in quite the same way again
Damn you, Gummo! Seriously, a great post on a skeptical approach to psychological profiling in homicide cases.
Ah, that immutable primate heritage
Richie at Crimitism takes on the latest piece of simian research (rhesus monkeys this time) which is being spun as proving something about innate gender tendencies. He details the various ways in which the spin fails to take certain results… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 