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The Seralini Rule 18 Jun 2013 | 08:23 pm
I have a new rule for debating anti-GMO people: If you favorably cite the 2012 Séralini rats fed on Roundup ready maize study, you just lost the argument. If you cite this study as demonstrating any d...
RFK Jr: Government Scientists are Lying 12 Jun 2013 | 07:01 am
Some people simply can't accept reality. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is apparently writing a book that will prove, prove I tell you, that Thimerosal in vaccines causes autism. This is despite all the scient...
Sylvia Browne Wrong / Psychics Useless Again 8 May 2013 | 08:29 am
You will have heard the good news about three missing women - Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight – who just escaped captivity after 10 years locked up in a house in Cleveland. Here is some...
Is “Right To Know” about GMOs the same as “Teach the Controversy”? 1 Apr 2013 | 03:36 am
I was reading Keith Kloor’s article Teaching the Controversy. He likens the “right to know” campaign (the movement to label genetically modified foods) as a variation of the creationist “teach the con...
David Dilworth - Dishonest and a Liar. Also Still Wrong 3 Feb 2013 | 02:22 am
Redundant tile. Harsh also, but true, as I will demonstrate. I wrote my last post, Incorrectly Calling Logical Fallacies, to explain where David Dilworth had gone wrong in his claiming to have identif...
Incorrectly Calling Logical Fallacies 14 Jan 2013 | 10:36 am
Regular readers will know that critical thinking involves knowing logical fallacies – recognizing them in other people’s arguments, and not using them in your own. But falsely calling fallacies is jus...
The Golden Woos #4 7 Jan 2013 | 01:06 am
It’s the new year, and so time for the fourth annual* Golden Woo Awards for outstanding work in the promotion of Woo in the previous year. Here are the winners for 2012: * Except for years when I didn...
