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Category Archives: Health
Homeopathy Cured my Hamster
I paid a short visit to my parents in the UK during the Winterval, but by the time I got there I had developed full-blown tonsillitis and spent most of the time feverish and delerious in bed. Fortunately I was able … Continue reading
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The Heretic’s Guide to vegan Cookery
Book Review: The Heretic’s Guide to Vegan Cookery Warning! Not suitable for Breatharians Andy Murray The Good Elf Press 2009 187pp Astrology is an amazing tool to run your life by, without having to waste time with the fraudulent pseudo-scientific … Continue reading
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Biodynamics on the Pod Delusion
I am on this week’s episode of the UK-based Pod Delusion talking about Biodynamics and the environmental movement: This week: David Nutt’s Sacking and Government Policy by Simon Howard A.N Wilson’s Attitude to Science by Pete Hague Irrationality and Environmentalism … Continue reading
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The Real Dirt on Organic Food
Update Aug 10th: Thanks to Robbie for sending me the link to Dominic Lawson’s piece on the FSA report and responses from the organic movement in the Times. Lawson quotes research suggesting farmers may have lower cancer rates possibly because … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Food, General, Health, Peak Oil, Science and Rationaltiy
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The Mockery of Evidence-based Science
Brilliant article here by John Gibbons in The Times making the same point that I have been making, linking climate change denial with Quackery and other types of pseudoscience. When science is reduced to a game, anyone can play. Scientists … Continue reading
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The Transition Timeline
Book Review: The Transition Timeline for a local, resilient future Shaun Chamberlin Forward by Rob Hopkins 190 pp pbk Chelsea Green 2009 The follow-up to Rob Hopkins’ seminal The Transition Handbook uses the method of “backcasting” from an envisioned future … Continue reading
Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter from measles
As the measles epidemic in Britain gathers pace, and the woo-woos who still do not acknowledge that their refuasal to vaccinate is not because of some higher spiritual knowledge, but simply ignorance brought about by bad science and an irresponsible … Continue reading
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From the BBC: “Rise in measles ‘very worrying’”
From the BBC yesterday: “Measles cases in England and Wales rose by 36% in 2008, figures show… “Professor David Salisbury, director of immunisation at the Department of Health, said it was “irresponsible” for parents not to have their children vaccinated. … Continue reading
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Bad Science- and Good
Update: Jan 9th 2009 “Unprecedented” rise in Measles cases in England and Wales due to poor uptake of MMR: “ “We shouldn’t forget that the children who weren’t vaccinated many years ago are at real risk.” ” ‘Big pharma is … Continue reading
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Ecological Enlightenment
Richard Heinberg has recently written about how our understanding of our place within ecological systems- the ability to see the “big picture” of energy flows and resource constraints on human activity- could be seen as a kind of “enlightenment”- a … Continue reading
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