Archive for the ‘Pseudoscience’ Category

So anti-​​discrimination laws do not apply if the discrimination comes from a faith based group?

Meryl Dorey, President of the Australian Vaccination Network, recently published a media release in which she decries the media’s “witchhunt” of the AVN. Recent investigations of the AVN by multiple branches of the New South Wales government, the reports and results of those investigations, various media interviews with Meryl Dorey, quotes from Dorey, and other factual […]

Normally I’m not a fan of tracking back through the archives of blogs that I follow, but I’m prepared to make a big exception with The Panda’s Thumb, a group blog focused on evolutionary biology and its cultural and religious detractors. In a way it’s like Homologous Legs, except older, better and the people who […]

Landmark Forum — Undercover cult

By Sam Rankin

23
Jul. 10

A common device new age products use is the method of keeping their descriptions wafer thin. The Secret mastered the use of getting people to read an entire book under the general guise of the powers of wishful thinking. So when a book,  religion, or in this case a self help philosophy can cram in […]

Cross posted from Homologous Legs The title of this post may be controversial, but I assure that I haven’t lost my mind… just yet. What I want to address is a point that needs to be addressed if the scientific community, especially the part of the community that communicates science to the public, is to […]

John Edward on the 7pm Project

By skelliot

09
Jun. 10

John Edward appears on the 7pm Project and discusses how he has been joking all along and he is really a POE. That little scamp! He has been tricking us all along.

The State Library does not make any judgment about individuals, groups or organizations, unless there is a clear breach of law, policies or procedures, in which case we may act to exclude clients. I acknowledge your opposition to the Australian Vaccination Network but this does not provide grounds for the State Library to exclude this group […]

While looking through the science section at EzineArticles​.com, I found an article which disputed the reliability of twin studies in psychology research. This in itself is not a bad thing. There are some methodological issues with twin studies. But the author’s main arguments were that twin studies don’t involve DNA testing, that the research results […]