Wired have an excellent article by Amy Wallace discussing the psuedoscientific nonsense spread by the anti-vaccination lobby and the damage it has [...]
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I don’t drink alcohol and I find it a strange coincidence that two other skeptical bloggers in Perth, both of whom are in my blog roll, are also teetotallers. Just like me neither Kylie at Podblack nor Andy at Thinking is Real drink alcohol. Both talk about the pressure to conform in a society where consumption [...] Humans have an amazing ability to believe things in the face of overwhelming evidence against them. Frequently it seems that the more outrageous the claims made about a phenomenon or product the more people will flock to it. Such claims are often made about treatments for diseases such as homeopathy, faith healing, chiropractic or reflexology and [...] Two articles within days of each other, one reported by the ABC here in Australia and the other by the BBC. The ABC article reports on a study conducted in Canberra it found that: the increase [in peanut allergies] has come despite increased efforts by parents to avoid giving toddlers peanuts in their diet. The author of the report [...] The public hysteria over severe peanut allergies raised my skeptical hackles recently. Following a discussion with one of the teacher assistants at work last week, in which she tired to argue with no clear understanding of the issues or even the scantest anecdotal data, that we should ban nuts from the school, I decided to try [...] There comes a time in everybody’s life when they realise that they are no longer young. For some this may create a pang of sadness, those lost years, regrets, missed chances and the sudden, daunting realisation that this is, in fact, it. For others a matter of indifference but I am sure that nobody can honestly [...] Those of you with whom I am personally acquainted will not consider it news that I have Type I Diabetes. I was diagnosed when I was 24 and have lived with the condition for about 8 years. While it was once considered a debilitating disease modern understandings of the disease means that its management can equate [...] I imagine that universal healthcare suffers from shortages of funding in all countries in which it exists. Certainly it would seem that public health systems are a void in which large sums of money disappear. To provide up-to-date, well maintained, well staffed and scalable health facilities is costly. Given ageing populations and the rise of obesity, [...] |
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