Tuesday, 9th March

The Lay Scientist


The Homeopaths Strike Back (The Times)
By Martin

It's fair to say that 2010 hasn't been a vintage year for homeopathy so far. At the end of January, a mass public 'overdose' by critics aiming to demonstrate the fact that homeopathic remedies contain no active ingredients received widespread coverage. Weeks later, the Science & Technology Select Committee ...

Left Brain/Right Brain


An open letter to Jenny McCarthy
By Left Brain/Right Brain

The Lay Scientist


Biocontrol Trial Given Go-Ahead
By David

A trial release of a tiny Japanese insect has been sanctioned by DEFRA to try to control the spread of Japanese Knotweed, a rapidly growing introduced plant that reportedly costs over £150 million per year to control. <!-- --> read more

Left Brain/Right Brain


Update: Dr. Poul Thorsen not missing, NOT suspected in theft
By Left Brain/Right Brain

Thinking Is Dangerous


Righteous Indignation Podcast
By Dr* T

Monday, 8th March

The Lay Scientist


Ada Lovelace Day March 24
By Tessera

From the Ada Lovelace website: Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the ...

The Lay Scientist


Princess Serafina: London’s First Recorded Drag Artist
By Lucy Inglis

On the 5th of July 1732 Thomas Gordon was indicted for robbing one John Cooper, of Number 11, Eagle-court, the Strand. The two men had taken a walk together in Chelsea Fields 'to a secret place', and Gordon had threatened Cooper with a knife unless he gave up ...

The Lay Scientist


Brain implants show what attention looks like
By Casey

Imagine you're playing a game of basketball--running down the length of the court, your shoes squeaking and you're fingers bouncing the ball about every 2 strides. You're darting left and right, about to sneak under the goal, leap over ...

Skeptobot


Dear London SITP goers, fancy a Ninja Skeptical Science Nomadic HQ monthly meet up for Schemes and Adventures?
By Magic Darts

Sunday, 7th March

The Lay Scientist


International Year of Biodiversity 2010
By Madhusudan

via youtube.com If you are on Facebook, become a fan of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010 page for more information on the issues throughout this year. <!-- -->

consider, evaluate, act


Placebo - a discussion
By teekblog

Left Brain/Right Brain


Is story spread by Age of Autism true?
By Left Brain/Right Brain

Saturday, 6th March

gimpy's blog


Marian Harkin MEP, conspiracy theorist and big quacka shill
By gimpy

Early last year I blogged about the misleading statements made by some MEPs in trying to water down EU proposals for the regulation of the vitamin pill industry.  It appeared that these MEPs had been influenced by the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), then collaborating with the vitamin pill salesman ...

Friday, 5th March

Action For Autism


Polly Tommey and the Adult Autism Strategy.
By Mike

Last year I wrote a couple of posts (here and here) criticizing Polly Tommey for pulling expensive publicity stunts that resulted in her meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife at Downing Street. She presented herself as just a mother speaking for thousands of other mothers. Her remarkable success was contrasted with the apparent ...

SciencePunk


Vampire Forensics by Mark Jenkins
By SciencePunk

After a brief insurrection by their blue collar offspring, zombies, vampires have once more regained their prominence as the monster supreme, leaping out at us from every bookshelf, cinema screen and TV set. What better time then for Mark Jenkins to unleash his accomplished study of the bloodsucker legend, ...

SciencePunk


Record grooves as seen under the microscope
By SciencePunk

Thanks to Emilia for showing me this awesome post on the Synthgear website which shows what record grooves look like under an electron microscope. Here's a line of disco magnified 500 times: Researcher Chris Supranowitz at the University ...

Action For Autism


Autistic Adult Strategy published in the UK
By Mike

The UK government have published their strategy for autistic adults, Fulfilling and rewarding lives: the strategy for adults with autism in England. This was welcomed by the National Autistic Society. The National Autistic Society (NAS) is pleased to welcome the publication of the first ever strategy for improving the lives of ...

Left Brain/Right Brain


Disability Coalition applauds passage of Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion Legislation
By Left Brain/Right Brain

Left Brain/Right Brain


Lawsuit against alternative medical practitioners Usman and Rossignal
By Sullivan

Dr Aust's Spleen


Bad Administration
By draust

Perhaps the best leader article I have read in the Times Higher Education these last several years can be found here. Red Tape: A Form of Distrust Academics are vociferous in their condemnation of bureaucracy, especially when it tries to measure the unmeasurable. Obviously, higher education must be accountable to its public paymasters, ...

Thursday, 4th March

The Lay Scientist


Women and AIDS
By Tessera

HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of death worldwide in women of reproductive age. UNAids has launched a five year plan to deal with the gender inequality and human rights violations behind this epidemic. The plan by the joint United Nations Programme is called ...

Thinking Is Dangerous


HA! Ha! Nelson’s Natural World forced to change website by MHRA
By Dr* T

Left Brain/Right Brain


Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism
By Left Brain/Right Brain

Left Brain/Right Brain


14 Monkeys 3: Mark Blaxill Swings and Misses for Wakefield Paper
By Evil Possum

Wednesday, 3rd March

Stuff And Nonsense


The Trouble With Government Policy
By jdc325

Moral and pragmatic considerations play a part in most policy making, and (when convenient) some policy may even be evidence-based. In formulating policy, the policy makers must decide how much weight to give moral considerations, practicality, and the evidence base. Foreign Policy Historically, British foreign policy seems to me to have been ...

Left Brain/Right Brain


UK Advertising Standards Authority Rules on Options Institute
By Left Brain/Right Brain

Left Brain/Right Brain


New national autism strategy launched in UK
By Left Brain/Right Brain

Left Brain/Right Brain


One reason why I vaccinate
By Left Brain/Right Brain

Tuesday, 2nd March

Letting Off Steam


The ?Health Ranger? and Our Precious Bodily Fluids
By jaycueaitch

[BPSDB] Mike Adams is turning into a parody of himself. If I had read this just about anywhere other than NaturalNews, I would have thought the author was taking the piss. Our Mike jumps from the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to a government plot to reduce the civilian population ...

DC's Improbable Science


Some truly appalling reporting of science by the BBC
By David Colquhoun

In the wake of the report by the Science and Technology Committee (STC) on the lack of evidence for homeopathy, and the Chinese medicine poisoning, the BBC carried at least three very bad reports. Being a strong supporter of the BBC that saddens me.  Nevertheless it has to be said ...

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