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Archive of posts tagged Bad Astronomy

When teachers and colleges go bad

Bad Astronomy blog article – When a biologist teaches creationism Or where they always bad? Anyway, sad and bad. Science-based classes need to teach science. And religions taught in classes on religion. Or is that too simple? Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010

The deceptions of Dr Andrew Wakefield

The deceptions, immorality and, I would add, criminal acts of discredited doctor Andrew Wakefield laid bare at http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html “The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield”.The media doesn’t come out looking good either. Neither does Jim Carrey. Or Jenny McCarthy. Remember, there are a lot of misguided, ignorant and evil people around. A lot [...]

Morristown UFO Experiment

Interesting experiment. Just some flares attached to helium balloons but the eyewitness accounts and media attention were very interesting. http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-04-01.html#feature …and of course some discussions over at Bad Astronomy: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/02/how-easy-is-it-to-fool-ufo-believers-easy-if-you-have-a-flare-for-it/ Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009

Bad Astronomy!

Phil Plait of the legendary Bad Astronomy website has a nefarious plan! He has some great blog articles and other resources that educate on all things astronomy, pareidolia and the fight against misinformation and nonsense. Check it out. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009

Randi’s magic

Even I didn’t need Randi’s help to see straight away all the flaws in the dowser’s “demonstration”. It made me laugh though! Are dowsers easy targets? You betcha! But there are too many people who think that dowsers are the real thing. Again, it’s the deluded leading the delusional. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMtuWymUzz4 Thanks to Bad Astronomy for [...]

Here Be Dragons

This was recommended at the Bad Astronomy blog last week but I’ve only just around to putting this here on my blog. Not terra incognita but “Here Be Dragons”…an introduction to critical thinking. The video at that website provides the basic tools to allow a critical mindset to develop…a useful weapon to get past all [...]