With news that Bill Gates has bought the rights from the BBC for some 1964 lectures given by Richard Feynman, in the discussions over at RichardDawkins.net a video clip was posted of Feynman explaining science through an analogy of observing a game of chess.
Nature of Science – Feynman’s analogy of science and chess
I remember this [...]
Say it ain’t so! DC’s Improbable Science provides another great article at http://www.dcscience.net/?p=1812 on what are obviously cash-cows for the University of Westminster. Cash-cows, yes, but also bullshit degrees. IMHO of course!
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009
Whilst cycling on Sarratt Road in the early afternoon of Saturday 20th June 2009 just outside the village centre of Sarratt, a car pulled up beside me and a young man or youth leaned out of the car’s side window and grabbed my backpack either pushing me or pulling me (I don’t recall which).
Anyway, [...]
Following the recent coverage on chiropractic, The Quackometer article http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/06/chiropractors-told-to-take-down-their.html reports on an astounding letter sent from the McTimoney Association to all its members. In a nutshell, it appears that chiropractors are running scared…running scared that the public are about to found out the truth that chiropractic is a pseudoscience.
There are several points in [...]
The are numerous examples at http://whatstheharm.net/homeopathy.html showing why homeopathy is dangerous. And now two parents have been convicted in Australia for causing the death of their child through application of homeopathy. This is a sad story and I felt pain reading about the suffering that the child experienced. I am sure that the parents [...]
My view on chiropractic is simple…it has been shown that chiropractic is based on non-scientific ideas, and various studies and trials reinforce that position. In other words, trials indicate that chiropractic is "bogus".
The recent situation with Simon Singh has rattled my cage, so to speak, and I have included some links here regarding the [...]
