Great article by Steven Novella on the weaknesses and misunderstandings of “Traditional Chinese Medicine”: What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine? http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/what-is-traditional-chinese-medicine/ Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Donald Prothero has got this spot on regarding the increase in junk programmes on supposedly science/factual TV channels. Science TV “network decay” http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/01/25/science-tv-sell-out/ Subjectively I did notice this trend but wondered if I was misperceiving. I gave up on the History Channel years ago (I don’t even know if the word “History” has any meaning [...]
All this recent exposure of the controversy surrounding the Burzynski Clinic has exposed the Yes to Life charity to scrutiny and, especially, the charity’s funding from benefit concerts. As always, Quackometer has a blog on this: Burzynski Supporting Charity Loses Funding http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/01/burzynski-supporting-charity-loses-funding.html Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
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
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 [...]
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
Further detailed information on the Burzynski Clinic and the treatments that they offer: Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s “personalized gene-targeted cancer therapy”: Can he do what he claims for cancer? http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/stanislaw-burzynskis-personalized-gene-targeted-cancer-therapy/ Other previous articles from myself: The Observer, the Burzynski Clinic, and Complicity in Misinformation http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/12/04/711.html The Burzynski Clinic Threatens 17 Year Old Blogger http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/11/29/705.html Burzynski Clinic [...]
Loved this video. It explains, with some humour at the end, that science is the best tool we have for understanding. I would elaborate and reinforce that modern science tells us about religion and gods; that there is no evidence of gods, that all evidence indicates the increasing implausibility of gods, and that religions are [...]
Errors with statistics: What if academics were as dumb as quacks with statistics? http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/what-if-academics-were-as-dumb-as-quacks-with-statistics/ Statistical Errors in Mainstream Journals http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/statistical-errors-in-mainstream-journals/ Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011
Yup, that Noah dude sure was a miracle maker! Videos from NonStampCollector: Noah’s Ark (part 1 of 2) Noah’s Ark (part 2 of 2) Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011
