Science

  • Skepchick Quickies 6.26

    Things that can raise your risk of stroke, like chiropractic “treatment”-  Also, getting your hair washed at a salon and birth control.  I should hope the BC risk isn’t news to any woman taking them.  From Augustus. Guess who’s picketing George Carlin’s funeral?-  Oh yes. Old school vs. new school in the lab-  I agree with Orac, that while kits…

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  • Defining terms

    The comments on my post about intelligent design and bug_girl’s post about creationism got me to thinking. I’ve posted these questions in a Christian forum and in an ex-fundamentalist support group and am comparing the answers. So, to add a third group, I’d like to ask the questions here. I think it will be interesting to see how the answers from…

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  • Skepchick Quickies 6.24

    Professor challenges homeopaths– “Edzard Ernst, who researches complementary medicine at Exeter University, is offering a cash prize to anyone who can prove that homeopathy can be successful.Prof Ernst says the £10,000 reward will go the first person who can prove that the treatment works better than a placebo in scientific trials.”  Thanks Kevin L. Fred Phelps: even weirder than you…

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  • It’s opposite world!

    I know I should be writing a TAM recap but this came across my inbox and I couldn’t resist.  Some groups in India are upset about the messages being sent in a public school social studies textbook. Familiar, no? Not quite. In this case, it’s religious groups that are upset because they say the book promotes atheism and communism. India’s…

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  • A scientist argues Creationists might be right

    I thought in light of the ongoing discussion going on here, it might be interesting to mention an article came out today in The Scientist: What Neo-Creationists Get Right. I disagree with the first two points of the author, but I think he’s on to something here: “The third noteworthy point IDers make has its roots, paradoxically, in a kind…

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  • Crop Circles: Valid Research?

    Those of you who have been skeptics and good critical thinkers for any stretch of time know that when it comes to outrageous and unsubstantiated claims, there is very little under the sun that is new. Oh, there may be variations on old claims and the occasional re-packaging of defunct arguments, but for the most part, the Bare Naked Ladies…

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  • Skepchick Quickies 6.18

    Scans see “gay brain differences”– The brains of gay men and women look like those found in heterosexual people of the opposite sex, research suggests.  Thanks Frankiemouse. The Mother, The Child, The School Board And The Psychic– An educational assistant goes to a psychic. Psychic tells her that her student whose name begins with V is being sexually abused. Educational…

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  • Skepchick Quickies 6.17

    Waking the feminist inside the fangirl– Where are all the female superhero movies? Lady Frankenstein builds a love machine-  “Lady Frankenstein is an early-1970s spaghetti horror flick that’s all about what happens when you let ladies into the lab. They build the ultimate love machines, combining their favorite male brains with their favorite male bodies.” The ethics of farming– We’ve…

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