From my own blog
We have probably all seen the Lemon Detox commercials for one of the latest snake oils to hit the market. It has all the red flags of a fraudulent product, celebrity endorsements, miracle claims and personal testimonies. What I can’t find is any scientific support for the claims that are made on […]
Archive for the ‘Skeptic’ Category
This might be pretty controversial, but I’m going to go ahead and say it anyway.
I don’t have any problem with people who call themselves “climate change skeptics” — if they really are good skeptics. In fact, based on what I consider a reasonable definition of the term “climate change skeptic”, I’m a climate change skeptic. More on this later.
But, […]
Hi fellow Global Atheist Convention attendees who are not attending the official dinner. For those looking for somewhere to dine on Saturday night in Melbourne, the Humanist Society of Victoria have chosen a good venue and it would be great if a few groups all caught up in the same place to chat. So get […]
Cross Posted At Friend of Reason
It’s time for the second installment of my “Chronicle of Belief” where I attempt to put into words my own world-view and the opinions and positions that help define me. This entry is about my identification with the label Secular Humanist, a particular world-view with which I sympathize and identify strongly. […]
As of Friday, Australia effectively has its first saint, however she will have to wait until October to be canonised (It’ll be a sort of early Christmas present for Australia’s Catholics). I have written previously about the problems I have with Mary Mackillop’s specific road to sainthood so will not go back over them here, […]
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 […]
People keep telling me that quackery is harmless. It’s all a bit of fun, they aren’t harming anyone. However this could not be further from the truth, purveyors of Woo are not only defrauding vulnerable people but they can also contributing to serious health issues and even death. The worst offenders are the Alternative Medicine scams.
Via Pharyngula.
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 […]
Poor Jesus. Looks like he started hitting the ganja hard after the ‘incident’ on Easter…
