Category Archives: Science and Rationaltiy

Biodynamics on the Pod Delusion

Posted on 6 November 2009 by Graham

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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Biodynamics: Why Believe What Steiner said?

Posted on 21 September 2009 by Graham

It is hard to know how best to respond to Judith Hoad’s article in the current edition of the IOFGA magazine Organic Matters in which she admonishes me for being “blinkered” in rejecting biodynamics, the esoteric practice of farming proposed … Continue reading →

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The Real Dirt on Organic Food

Posted on 5 August 2009 by Graham

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 | 14 Comments

The Mockery of Evidence-based Science

Posted on 23 July 2009 by Graham

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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Faith in Transition

Posted on 12 July 2009 by Graham

Update: 16/07/09 See Dan Dennett on “Belief in belief” here Updates: I’ve just put a couple of updates for clarification and a couple more links. I’ve marked them in the text. I also want to say, whatever about my concerns … Continue reading →

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The Transition Timeline

Posted on 29 June 2009 by Graham

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 →

Posted in book review, climate change, community, Health, Peak Oil, Population, Powerdown, Science and Rationaltiy, Transition Towns | 6 Comments

Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter from measles

Posted on 3 June 2009 by Graham

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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Book Review: When Technology Fails

Posted on 5 April 2009 by Graham

When Technology Fails- A Manual for Self- Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency Matthew Stein Chelsea Green 2000, 2008 494 pp Matthew Stein’s massive survival manual When Technology Fails packs into one volume everything you need to survive “The … Continue reading →

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Come with Me to Solla Sollew

Posted on 7 March 2009 by Graham

I was delighted to read in Sharon Astyk’s  Casaubon’s Book that last Tuesday was the 105th birthday of Dr. Seuss. Like thousands of others, my upbringing was influenced and enriched by the famous Cat in the Hat books- which Astyk’s … Continue reading →

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From the BBC: “Rise in measles ‘very worrying’”

Posted on 7 February 2009 by Graham

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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