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Rank... in more ways than one12 comments

draust wrote 2 weeks ago: In which Dr Aust considers his lack of promotion prospects, but does attain rank in the “Anti- … more →

Tags: Alternative Medicine, bad science, Cosmic insignificance, Education, humour, legal chill, Procrastination

Back crack quack attack - the song10 comments

draust wrote 1 month ago: Not got round to doing any extended chiropractic debunking as yet, though I am enjoying tremendously … more →

Tags: Alternative Medicine, back cracking, bad science, humour, legal chill, Musical nonsense

Truly Much Bogosity - latest news9 comments

draust wrote 2 months ago: In which Dr Aust considers the plight of Simon Singh, the Alice in Wonderland world of defamation la … more →

Tags: Alternative Medicine, back cracking, legal chill, Medicine, ruling idiocies

Cargo Cult Science [post #1, week #1]

pasgetti wrote 4 months ago: I found Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman to be very interesting.  He made some good points abou … more →

Tags: Science, Richard Feynman, Critical Thinking, Philosophy

You couldn't make it up21 comments

draust wrote 4 months ago: A small round-up of what I have been reading. The line “You couldn’t make it up” … more →

Tags: Alternative Medicine, back cracking, bad science, Homeopathy, humour, Vaccines

Richard Feynmann, one of the 20th centuries greatest scientists, talks to us about climate science20 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 5 months ago: Summary:  Climate science is one of our times most important areas of research, and as such the natu … more →

Tags: Science & geopolitics, cargo cult, Climate Science, Richard Feynman, Science

My New Favourite Buzzword: Cargo Cult Science3 comments

James wrote 7 months ago: As buzzwords go, it’s a pearler. Cargo Cult Science incorporates all of the subtleties of the … more →

Tags: Critical Reasoning, scepticism, Pseudo-Science, Quackery, Voodoo science

The First Nutritionista's Song50 comments

draust wrote 7 months ago: In which Dr Aust gets all Gilbert and Sullivan on celebrity Nutritionistas and their airs Dr Aust … more →

Tags: Alternative Medicine, bad science, Cosmic insignificance, humour, Musical nonsense, Nutri-nonsense, patrick holford, Sheer Silliness

Shake it, baby, shake it 45 comments

draust wrote 10 months ago: In which homeopathy (spelling optional) gets a new theme tune (and it even rhymes). If I could hav … more →

Tags: Alternative Medicine, bad science, Cosmic insignificance, Homeopathy, humour, Medicine, Musical nonsense, Sheer Silliness

Cargo Cult Management.10 comments

Mike Speiser wrote 10 months ago: Cargo Cult (background from Wikipedia). A cargo cult appears in tribal societies in the wake of int … more →

Tags: Ideas!, cargo cult, cargo cult management, Good To Great, Built to Last, Jim Collins

Richard Feynman: It's Not a Scientific World1 comment

chillguy33 wrote 11 months ago: Via The Reference Frame, Luboš Motl: Cargo cult science: a video Richard Feynman comments colorfull … more →

Tags: flim flam, Al Gore, James Hansen

The "toxins in vaccines" crowd are still with us16 comments

draust wrote 1 year ago: Rather depressingly, the anti-vaccinationists, those Never-say-die Energizer Bunny types of the Alt … more →

Tags: Alternative Medicine, Medicine, Science & Politics, Vaccines

On the trail of Caldicott, 10 years on.4 comments

Luke Weston wrote 1 year ago: I recently discovered this webpage, which makes for very interesting reading. I always wondered what … more →

Tags: Carl Sagan, Helen Caldicott

Science and Politics should not mix; This Fire From Saltwater idea is wack (and wacky).2 comments

durch wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I did a blog on why politicians should not pretend they understand science and have the pu … more →

Tags: thrift, Politics, Government Waste, Science


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