Following on from my article Quackery! regarding discredited doctor Joseph Chikelue Obi suing www.quackometer.net, it now appears from The Register that Quackometer’s domain hosting company Netcetera have capitulated and that Quackometer is (currently) no more. Frivolity and ignorance. Boo! The good news is that an alternative domain hosting company with backbone has been found and that Quackometer will soon be [...]
The CTO of Opera Software, Håkon Wium Lie, must be feeling the pressure. The Opera browsers are not taking over the market place. No, Microsoft’s IE browsers and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers are the big players here with Apple’s Safari increasing its presence, and Opera having a bit part. But rather than emulate Firefox’s successes, Opera [...]
Just had a shock! From DC’s Improbable Science article on “Quackademics in USA and Canada” I found out that the Natural History Museum in London promotes the pseudo-science and quackery of homeopathy. It’s bad enough with blithering Prince Charles et al doing the wacky talk, but to have an esteemed science institution doing the same is [...]
A lot of people ask “What’s the harm with homeopathy?” After all, it’s only water. Homeopathy had its uses when it first started in the 18th centuary as the “treatment” generally caused less harm than the more traditional treatments at the time. But things are now different. Science has moved on and our knowledge has increased. Proper [...]
Well, just the other day I saw an episode of the BBC’s Horizon programme titled “How to make better decisions”. I nearly barfed! It wasn’t as bad as their “The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön” episode but it certainly ranks as a very bad science programme. I don’t want to say too much about the corny equations [...]
Carl Sagan’s book “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark” includes ideas and tools for skeptical thinking. The following are recommended as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent reasoning: TOOLS (1) Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the facts. (2) Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by [...]
Walking back from work today and seeing an ambulance screeching past I was reminded of two recent incidents which still totally baffle me. Incident 1: It’s broad daylight and I’m walking down the high street. I hear the sirens of an ambulance in the distance and I can see the flashing lights (oh about a [...]
Formula 1 car re-imagined from my 2001 copy. Copyright © 2008 Kulvinder Singh Matharu – All Rights Reserved
Devil Tree re-imagined, 2008. An updated version of the 2001 copy. Copyright © 2008 Kulvinder Singh Matharu – All Rights Reserved
Copyright © 2008 Kulvinder Singh Matharu – All Rights Reserved
