Wired have an excellent article by Amy Wallace discussing the psuedoscientific nonsense spread by the anti-vaccination lobby and the damage it has done.
Recommended reading.
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Great piece on vaccines by Brent Simmons Via Daring Fireball: I’m still living with the effects of the chicken pox I had in third grade. There was no vaccine then. Every kid just got it. It swept through school, and nobody tried too hard to prevent the spread, because every kid would get it, and it was [...] Aussie expat Clive James on Scepticism. An interesting article… A conjecture can be dressed up as a dead certainty with enough rhetoric and protected against dissent with enough threatening language, but finally it has to meet the only test of science, which is that any theory must fit the facts, and the facts can’t be altered [...]
I came across this advertisement when we were in Melbourne? Do you think he’ll reply? I can’t imagine that it is free since most of those dodgy text services are extremely pricey. 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 [...] Great video via Andy at Thinking is Real and Kylie at Podblack. This Irish comedian really sums it up. My favourite part is “science tested [herbal remedies] and the parts that worked became medicine”. The amazing volume of rubbish promulgated by the commercial television networks in Australia has long ceased to amaze me, and yet I must shake my head in dismay at the credulous rubbish featured on Channel 7’s “Today, Tonight” this evening. The item in question was a puff-piece for “leading UK Psychic Astrologer David Wells”. Wells like [...] I have noticed the above sign outside a beautician’s shop in my local shopping centre recently. Every time I have walked past the amazing claims it lists have made me raise an eyebrow. So after a few weeks of eyebrow raising I decided that I should investigate. The text reads: If you are living, eating, breathing…YOU need [...] Have you ever had an idea that seems totally original and derived entirely from your own thinking, but actually turns out to have be quite well established when you look for information about it? This happened to me with evidence based education. For some time now I have applied critical thought and skepticism to all facets [...] 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 [...] |
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