Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Science writer Simon Singh has today won his appeal against the libel action brought by the British Chiropractic Association.
Full details here.
*UPDATE*
I was slightly overzealous with the celebrations above. What Simon has won is the right to use his argument that his statements were opinion, something that should be protected under freedom of speech/press.
Hopefully this will allow him to actually overturn the libel verdict that was previously handed down.
*UPDATE 2*
Of course you should all know by now that the BCA has dropped its case. Whoohoo! No Simon just needs to get his money back from them and everything will be straight again. 
Tags: CAM, Chiropractic, Libel, Simon Singh
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
I was just watching this funny Youtube video when my mind wandered a little and a few random thoughts connected themselves.
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Tags: Bible, Creationism, Crocaduck, Evidence, Eye, Goddidit, Gods, Intelligent Design, Science
Posted in Evolution, Science, Stupidity | 2 Comments »
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
A few days ago I stumbled upon a web site which linked a video titled “The Scientific Case for Intelligent Design – Darwinism Debunked“. I didn’t have the time to watch it then so I put the link aside. Today I had a quiet afternoon and so I watched it. Below are my notes dissecting the video as it went.
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Tags: Charles Darwin, Creationism, Evidence, Goddidit, Gods, Intelligent Design, Science
Posted in Evolution, Science, Stupidity | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
I’ve been trying to decide if I should post something about Global Warming (or Anthropogenic Global Climate Change AGCC – my preferred moniker) for a while now. Following a couple of posts by leading sceptic James Randi (see here and here) which cause a little bit of a storm amongst the sceptic community I thought I’d add my own twist on the matter (although I doubt it’ll cause even a ripple).
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Tags: AGCC, Sceptic
Posted in Climate Change, Evolution, General, Science | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
As you may, or may not, be aware, today is International Blasphemy Day, and to that end, here is my little bit of Blasphemy… (edit: and dreadful comma abuse, sorry)
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Tags: Blasphemy
Posted in Atheism, Humour, Morality, Religion, Science, Stupidity, Superstition | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
It’s quite common for Creotards and IDiots to argue that certain scientific theories break certain laws of physics. It’s an interesting attempt at an argument, using science to disprove science! 
The two of the most common ones used against evolution are the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the Conservation of Angular Momentum.
Lets quickly have a poke and laugh at these shall we?
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Tags: Angular Momentum, Creotards, Evolution, IDiots, Science, Thermodynamics
Posted in Evolution, Religion, Science | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 10th, 2009
I know I’m a bit late with this, but I was on holiday and not keeping up with the blogging world (yes, it is possible ). Anyway, here is a copy of Simons article that got him in trouble.
Some practitioners claim it is a cure-all, but the research suggests chiropractic therapy has mixed results – and can even be lethal, says Simon Singh.
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Tags: Chiropractic, Simon Singh
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
I’ve been watching Channel 4′s Inside Natures Giants. It’s a fascinating series where a team of experts dissect some of the largest creatures on the planet. They have tackled a Whale, and Elephant, a Crocodile, and a Giraffe. The dissections were all undertaken primarily to understand why the particular individual animal died, but it also allowed us to see some of the amazing evolutionary adaptations that allows the animals to be what they are.
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Tags: Crocodile, Dissection, Elephant, Giants, Giraffe, Natures, Whale
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Over at the Missing Universe Museum website (another Creation/ID website that can provide many many hours of entertainment) they have created an little Evolution Test which they propose students give to teachers to see how they react. As you can probably already imagine, the test is rather silly, and the questions posed are almost entirely ridiculous. However I (as a non educator and non scientist) shall attempt to provide at least reasonably accurate answers.
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Tags: Evidence, Goddidit, Science
Posted in Evolution, Science, Stupidity | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The current Swine Flu epidemic has prompted the company I work for to install little bottles of alcohol based hand sanitisers everywhere. I quickly scanned the label on one today and noticed it claims to kill 99.999% of all bacteria. That sounds impressive, but it made me think, what exactly does that mean?
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Tags: Bacteria, Epidemic, Swine Flu
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
The average human being is a simple creature. They go about their daily lives, obeying the law, obeying any commands given to them by authoritative figures, and obeying signs and notices all over the place.
So it was that a week or so ago in the kitchen of my place of work (I work for a large US based international IT company with offices in most countries) a cardboard box appeared, with a note attached requesting that milk bottle lids be left therein. No further information was given at all. Being the human sheep (sheople?) that we all are, milk bottle tops began to appear in the box.
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Tags: Charity, Evidence, Hoax, Lids, Milk, People, Plastic, Sceptic, Sheep
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
Take a look at this article by Tom Clark at Naturalism.org; it’s about the misguided notion that in some areas faith can give us genuine answers to questions before which science is impotent. This is the NOMA (”nonoverlapping magisteria”) refrain that we hear constantly from organizations like the National Academy of Sciences, the National Center for Science Education, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Are there “ways of knowing” that are not only unique to faith, but provide real answers about the nature of the universe?
From Why Evolution is True
Via Richard Dawkins.net
It’s an interesting article, and it got me thinking.
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Tags: Evidence, Faith, Knowledge, Senses
Posted in Religion, Science | 1 Comment »
