We are often told that the brain is the most complicated organ in the human body, that its functions and activities are shrouded in mystery. This is certainly true. We really don’t know about a lot of the things the brain does or how it does them. There has been and continues to be, extensive […]
Archive for the ‘Pseudoscience’ Category
Three months ago I wrote a blog post both here and at my blog about the case of Ron Houben, a man who was left in a vegetative state after a car crash. Some uncouth attention seekers decided to abuse this man, his family, and their dignity for their own 15 minutes of fame by […]
When debating claims of astrology, extra-sensory perception, medicine, ghosts, intelligent design, and religion, it is often argued that they are beyond science, that science doesn’t have the tools to study them. These arguments stem from a lack of understanding of how science operates.
Science is the gathering of observable, empirical and measurable evidence which is then used […]
99% of marketing material is stupid, which in addition to being a source of frustration can be a source of entertainment. Here are two items I recently encountered.
Item the First
While holidaying in northern New South Wales over the new year, I came across this pamphlet about healing and Reiki. It was the most hilarious thing I’ve […]
This is a post I recently wrote for my miniblog, but the reaction it received (not necessarily just through blog comments) has lead me to put it up on the main blog — and here on the Young Australian Skeptics website — where it’s most visible. It deals with something that might be considered a bit controversial in the […]
In advance I apologise for the rant you are about to read, so why not kick it off with a bang:
Wow! Peter Geryl is crazy!
Okay, obvious responses aside, after watching the first few minutes of the Bullshit! Episode on 2012 I saw that there was this guy, who staunchly believes that the world will end when the […]
I recently mentioned, on my blog, Dr. Granville Sewell, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso, in relation to a new book of his, filled with essays about intelligent design and evolution, that was recently published by the Discovery Institute. Sewell is an intelligent design proponent/advocate, and due to his status as […]
I’m attending Perth Skeptics in the Park, with about a dozen people sitting around in the shade of a gorgeous Sunday, and I’m telling people about the 10:23 Campaign interview I just did for the Skeptic Zone podcast. If you haven’t checked it out, it features Marsh of the Merseyside Skeptics.
Since I’m keen on Perth Skeptics […]
This year has been an excellent one for new books — some of my favorites published this year include:
The news sites are going crazy right now about a Belgian man called Rom Houben who has spent the last 23 years in a coma. His facilitators are now claiming he was not in a coma at all, but rather that he was just trapped conscious inside is body unable to get out and communicate […]
