Just when I thought that those annoying Google popups telling me to install Google Chrome had gone way, those evil things made their return yesterday to IE7, IE9, Firefox 9 and 10, and Safari. Strangely that damn popup did not appear in Opera. What does it take to destroy that annoying Google popup? Clearly Google [...]
I’ve been watching with increasing bewilderment and concern over the reaction of two London universities (London School of Economics and University College London) to the “Jesus and Mo” pictures. Coyne of “Why Evolution Is True” has a couple of posts on this today: More censorship at British universities http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/more-censorship-at-british-universities/ Apropos http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/apropos-2/ Pharyngula also has a [...]
Great article by Steven Novella on the weaknesses and misunderstandings of “Traditional Chinese Medicine”: What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine? http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/what-is-traditional-chinese-medicine/ Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Donald Prothero has got this spot on regarding the increase in junk programmes on supposedly science/factual TV channels. Science TV “network decay” http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/01/25/science-tv-sell-out/ Subjectively I did notice this trend but wondered if I was misperceiving. I gave up on the History Channel years ago (I don’t even know if the word “History” has any meaning [...]
All this recent exposure of the controversy surrounding the Burzynski Clinic has exposed the Yes to Life charity to scrutiny and, especially, the charity’s funding from benefit concerts. As always, Quackometer has a blog on this: Burzynski Supporting Charity Loses Funding http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/01/burzynski-supporting-charity-loses-funding.html Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Another great video from NonStampCollector: Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Further to what I think of as Google abusing its dominant position in constantly targeting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers and asking the user to switch to Google’s Chrome browser, there appears to be a change now. My previous rants on this: Google, you’re still annoying me and abusing your position http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/12/16/718.html Google abusing its dominant [...]
Here’s a typical example of the violent and evil behaviours of the religious: Why Is an Atheist High School Student Getting Vicious Death Threats? http://www.alternet.org/belief/153803/why_is_an_atheist_high_school_student_getting_vicious_death_threats/?page=entire It’s quite simple. The religious are not at all comfortable in their delusions and instinctively lash out at those that expose the irrationality and fragility of the religious mind. So [...]
Need to keep an eye on this, Burzynski is being sued by en elderly patient: Burzynski in Court: Patient treated like a ‘Cash Machine’ http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/01/burzynski-in-court-patient-treated-like-a-cash-machine.html Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
I had previously expressed my disappointment of Adobe’s Photoshop upgrade policy announced late last year; it now seems that Adobe have reconsidered that policy following extensive criticism. Further details here: Adobe has change of heart for CS6 upgrade pricing http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57357753-264/adobe-has-change-of-heart-for-cs6-upgrade-pricing/ I guess we need to find out a little bit more on the features and [...]
