DC’s Improbable Science has an article http://www.dcscience.net/?p=2829 titled “A handy list of dimwitted members of parliament” which starts: An‘early day motion1 (EDM 908) has been tabled in parliament which opposes the conclusions of the science and technology committee report on the evidence for homeopathy. After two weeks it has been signed by an amazing 55 [...]
I saw this film the other day. It was OK. Not brilliant but not bad…well, except that the military tactics employed by all sides did not make any sense to me. But then, what do I know, I’ve not been in the military. However, I couldn’t empathise or believe any of the characters. The story [...]
Seems that the Digital Economy Bill rides roughshod over photographer’s concerns and leaves open massive holes that can be exploited and abused with the result that one’s copywritten photographs can can be effectively stolen. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/05/mandybill_orphan_works/ So the music and film industry have been given stronger weapons to fight those whom they see as “stealing” their [...]
I use xbmc as the hub of my media centre, and one particular xbmc plugin that I loved was for accessing the BBC’s iPlayer content. However, the BBC has decided to break this; the sad story can be read at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/03/bbc_iplayer_content_protection.html As as a British citizen, living in the UK, paying taxes and paying the [...]
It seems that the BBC is much like any other large news organisation; perhaps better than some and perhaps worse than others. It has time pressures to produce something that is current and topical. And this can lead to poor research, poor quality assurance and poor implementation with biased reporting and inaccurate information. I certainly [...]
The Guardian has a very good article describing the sorry state that chiropractors have gotten into for making unsubstantiated and unsupportable medical claims; claims that Simon Singh rightly called “bogus”. The Guardian article is available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/01/simon-singh-libel-case-chiropractors Related articles: Beware the spinal trap http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2009/07/29/324.html Chiropractors on the run? http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2009/06/10/316.html Chiropractic – Bogus! http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2009/06/04/314.html The shaky [...]
