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 [...]
Corruption and credulity are enemies of reason and lead to violence, misery and slavery of the mind. Whoa! Where did that come from? I’d previously written on the scam of fake bomb-detectors being used in Iraq after my trip there: Fake bomb detectors still used in Iraq http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/04/21/597.html That article has a number of links [...]
Pharyngula discusses the latest antics of disgraced Andrew Wakefield: Andrew Wakefield lashes out http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/01/06/andrew-wakefield-lashes-out/ I just gotta post this again from 2010 that explains the background behind the fall of Wakefield and the problems of scientific illiteracy in the media: The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu [...]
DC’s Improbable Science has posted a summary of the fiver-year battle against the nonsense that UK universities have taught. It’s encouraging: The demise of quackademia. Progress in the last 5 years leaves Michael Driscoll and Geoffrey Petts isolated. http://www.dcscience.net/?p=4900 Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
From SMBC.
I had a Cherry eVolution Stream XT silent keyboard which was pretty nice but it didn’t last very long. Some of the keys began to feel a bit “squishy”, would make weird click noises and one key managed to displace the rubber contact dome. Oh dear. So a few months ago I decided that I [...]
Sam Homola recently posted an article at Science-Based Medicine where he describes his attempts to remove pseudoscience (i.e. subluxations) from chiropractic so as to provide treatments that provide legitimate effective treatment for back pain. It can be hoped that Homola succeeds but he has been at this since the early 1960s and progress has been [...]
Saw this YouTube video a couple or so years ago, but was reminded of it by a recent Tim Minchin performance. So here is “Storm” by Tim Minchin (the video is audio with text overlay): Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011
Religion needs people to be uneducated, to be unquestioning, to be stupid and credulous. This is how religion exerts itself and how it continues to enslave people into backwards thinking. Jerry Coyne explains this quite clearly in the recent “Be stupid” command from Pope Benedict XVI of the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope asks Catholics [...]
