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Goodbye for now…
Posted on June 10, 2012 | 1 CommentSo, it’s been quite a long time since I’ve posted at all regularly here. It’s time I bite-the-bullet and admit it’s going to be a while before I find the... -
Alternative medicine “butt” of serious joke
Posted on December 15, 2010 | 13 CommentsIf you wrote to the organising committee of a scientific conference saying that you have a theory that there is a person in everyone’s bum and if you massage it in the... -
Jesus did (not) cure someone of the flu
Posted on August 19, 2010 | 3 CommentsThis week we got a quick and entertaining lesson in the way science sometimes works… or doesn’t work. Just last week, someone asked me how to tell good science from... -
‘Gravity doesn’t exist’, says philosophically naive scientist/journalist
Posted on July 16, 2010 | 27 CommentsReports of a physicist “taking on gravity” have recieved a bit of attention recently, with a New York Times article outlining Erik Verlinde’s idea that gravity is an emergent property... -
RIP Martin Gardner
Posted on May 26, 2010 | 3 CommentsMartin Gardner — the science writer, maths writer, skeptic and the man who’s book I plagiarised the title of this blog from — has died at the age of 95.... -
Should journalists report on unpublished research?
Posted on April 9, 2010 | 24 CommentsI was recently commissioned to write a short news story about a some unpublished research. Should journalists be writing about research that hasn’t undergone peer review? The research was about... -
Climate change and philosophy of science: Does climate science aim at truth?
Posted on March 30, 2010 | 35 CommentsA couple of weeks ago there was an interesting exchange in The Guardian between George Monbiot and Nicholas Maxwell, a philosopher of science from University College London. In his piece,... -
Brain development and snake oil: graphical presentations of science
Posted on March 11, 2010 | 1 CommentIn a number of previous posts, I’ve discussed the way science can sometimes be wonderfully communicated through comics. (See here, here and here.) And it seems it used to be... -
Bogus science busting at New Matilda
Posted on February 22, 2010 | 1 CommentHere’s a great piece of bogus-science-busting from Anna Greer at New Matilda. I’m posting it here to make up somewhat for my month of absence… Conservative media around the world... -
Can unconscious brains think? Coma, philosophy of mind, and the media.
Posted on February 5, 2010 | 8 Comments“Ok brain. I don’t like you and you don’t like me. Let’s just do this and I can go back to killing you with beer.” - Homer Simpson A new...