5 month ago
wearehugh : Call Me Fishmeal.: “The Mojave Experiment:” Bad Science, Bad Marketing - "Initially, people like having sex without condoms, too"
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14 month ago
plasticbag : Ben Goldacre writes a long, brilliant and—please god—persuasive debunking of Homeopathy for The Guardian - The horror for me here is that cultural studies' critiques and examinations of the process of science are partly responsible for the public suspicion of evidence and rationality. Makes me very sad.
Rod Begbie : What's wrong with homeopathy, by Ben Goldacre | Science | The Guardian - Excellent article on homeopathy by Ben Goldacre -- not too ranty in an "all homeopathy is evil" way, rather a "homeopathy should be part of a discussion, if only for the benefits on the placebo effect, but we can't get the homeopaths to talk". Hopefully [via] #
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Panorama's programme on wifi appears to be scandalously scaremongerish... - If fifty percent of studies can find no evidence for a correlation at all, and radiation is one six-hundredth of reasonable than safety limits, then realistically it's not much of a threat is it.
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20 month ago
plasticbag : "An investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme suggests the risks posed by wi-fi computer networks may be greater than previously thought, but scientists say the health fears are unproven." - Love the use of 'unproven' here. It's being used to suggest that the bulk of scientists are still keenly investigating, rather than in the rather less worrying 'we have found no consistently observable correlations' sense...
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21 month ago
plasticbag : The Guardian Technology blog has revealed that for the second time in almost as many months The Independent has got something startlingly wrong... - This is the mobile phones kill bees thing that went around a while back. Apparently even the researchers of the original paper are sort of horrified by the way it was presented by the increasingly 'invisible ray'-afraid Indy...
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39 month ago
plasticbag : "Implosion researchers have found that if water is put through a spiral, its electrical field changes and it then appears to have a potent, restorative effect on cells." - "This is not a cultural issue, and this is not about alternative science versus western medicine. It is about the far simpler issue of a proper media organisation presenting made-up marketing rubbish as if it was scientific fact."
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