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Another interesting DC’s Improbable Science article, this time highlighting the woo-ness of certain “degrees” at Thames Valley University and the lack of critical thinking that is leading to the increase of dumb and dumber “degrees” at a number of universities.
The trouble with most folks isn’t so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain’t so. - Josh Billings
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I was reading another great article at DC’s Improbable Science, and I was laughing at the antics of the University of Wales but also crying at their contradictory and inconsistent messages on using scientific rigour but who were really actively supporting quackery. Money, money, money.
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The article University abandons homeopathy “degree” over at DC’s Improbable Science site explains how the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) dropped the “BSc” course on pseudoscience known as homeopathy.
However, it seems clear from Kate Chatfield’s e-mail and the clarification that DC provides that the e-mail is highly misleading and seems to demonstrate a lack of understanding of why homeopathy is not a subject that should be given degree status. Homeopathy, as a pseudoscience, abandons the scientific process and promotes unclear thinking…it opens the door to superstition.
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