From the ThinkingAthiest: The Pale Blue Dot – A Tribute to Carl Sagan Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011
Archive of posts tagged Carl Sagan
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 [...]
What?! Natural History Museum and pseudo-science!
Just had a shock! From DC’s Improbable Science article on “Quackademics in USA and Canada” I found out that the Natural History Museum in London promotes the pseudo-science and quackery of homeopathy. It’s bad enough with blithering Prince Charles et al doing the wacky talk, but to have an esteemed science institution doing the same is [...]
Dangers of pseudo-science and alternative medicines
A lot of people ask “What’s the harm with homeopathy?” After all, it’s only water. Homeopathy had its uses when it first started in the 18th centuary as the “treatment” generally caused less harm than the more traditional treatments at the time. But things are now different. Science has moved on and our knowledge has increased. Proper [...]
BBC Horizon – How to make better decisions. Well, yes, but not by watching horizon!
Well, just the other day I saw an episode of the BBC’s Horizon programme titled “How to make better decisions”. I nearly barfed! It wasn’t as bad as their “The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön” episode but it certainly ranks as a very bad science programme. I don’t want to say too much about the corny equations [...]
