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
This from Quackometer on The University of Wales: McTimoney Chiropractic College in Deep Trouble http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/10/mctimoney-chiropractic-college-in-deep-trouble.html …and this from DC’s Improbable Science where the University’s previous practices on validating external degrees are described as bordering on corrupt: The University of Wales disgraced (but its vice chancellor is promoted) http://www.dcscience.net/?p=4766 However, what about the people within the [...]
Read DC’s Improbable Science article and decide for yourself: Professor Geoffrey Petts of the University of Westminster says they “are not teaching pseudo-science”. The facts show this is not true http://www.dcscience.net/?p=4683 I’ve said many times, universities such as Westminster don’t care about reputation or quality education. They care about making money. Lots of it. Article [...]
You bet! See this enlightening post from DC’s Improbable Science: Yet more dangerous nonsense inflicted on students by Edinburgh Napier University http://www.dcscience.net/?p=4188 Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011
Apparently there’s an old saying, “Don’t kick a man when he’s trying to apologise”. Or something like that. And so I welcomed the news of several universities dropping “degree” courses in homeopathy. It can’t have been an easy thing to do but I’d like to think that the universities recognised the need to maintain intellectual [...]
Say it ain’t so! DC’s Improbable Science provides another great article at http://www.dcscience.net/?p=1812 on what are obviously cash-cows for the University of Westminster. Cash-cows, yes, but also bullshit degrees. IMHO of course! Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009
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 [...]
Thanks once again to the eagle eyes of DC’s Improbable Science, here is his article on the sham degrees that Westminster University is awarding. As DC goes on to explain, this isn’t the only university that is involved in such shambolic practices. And this isn’t just the abuse of science’s good name. I’d call it rape. I bet [...]
