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Burzynski in Court for negligence, negligent misrepresentation, fraud, deceptive trade and conspiracy

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

Adobe’s revised new upgrade policy for Photoshop

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 [...]

Fake bomb detectors in Iraq – January 2012

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 on Andrew Wakefield

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 [...]

The fight against woo – a good start to the year

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

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From SMBC.

Cherry G80-3000LSCGB-2 keyboard

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 [...]

Subluxation Theory: A Belief System That Continues to Define the Practice of Chiropractic

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 [...]

Storm by Tim Minchin, with text

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 stupid people

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 [...]