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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Fake ID – Response from Learning & Teaching Scotland
Learning and Teaching Scotland respond to the FakeID campaign… Continue reading
Posted in Featured, headline, news, Science
Tagged C4ID, centre for intelligent design, fake ID, intelligent design, learning and teaching scotland, Les Ogilvie, schools
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Nobody Expects The British Coalition!
This week’s cartoon from Dario Battisti… Continue reading
Posted in cartoons, humour, Science
Tagged cartoons, Dario Battisti, george osbourne, science cuts
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The Sins of the Father
Lamarckian inheritance in rats? Simon Bushell, a research biologist working in St Andrews, explains the science, the implications and the controversy demonstrated by a recent publication in the esteemed journal Nature. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Science
Tagged evolution, lamarckism, nature, rats, simon bushell
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Homeopathic Remedy Causes Belladonna Poisoning
A US purveyor of homeopathic medicine has attracted the attention of the US Food and Drug Administration after some of its remedies were found to contain traces of highly toxic belladonna, causing the poisoning of several children. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Scepticism, Science
Tagged belladonna, homeopathy, hylands, Les Ogilvie
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Bad Argument of the Week XXXII
Mike Adams misses the point about why living on McDonald’s hamburgers might not be a great idea and publishes an inane, fearmongering ramble about “terrifying” chemicals he knows nothing about. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Science
Tagged bad argument, health ranger, Les Ogilvie, mcdonalds, Mike Adams, mould
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Cult Status: Koreshanity
In this week’s Cult Status, Dario Battisti takes a look at the cult of Koreshanity, as founded by self-proclaimed alchemist Cyrus Reed Teed, and their belief in a hollow Earth which we all live inside. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, opinion, Scepticism
Tagged cult status, cults, Cyrus Teed, Dario Battisti, hollow earth, Koreshan Unity, Koreshanity
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Space Oddity
This week’s cartoon from Dario Battisti… Continue reading
Bad Argument of the Week XXXI
This week’s Bad Argument award winner is the Daily Mail columnist Melanie Philips for an extremely hypocritical and confused article against druids being counted as a religion, asking how people could believe such ‘mumbo-jumbo’ rather than… the Christian faith. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, opinion, Scepticism
Tagged bad argument, daily mail, Dario Battisti, druids, Melanie Philips, religion
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Enlightenment Special! DINOSAURS with Dr Dave Hone
In an Enlightenment Special, we welcome back paleontologist Dr Dave Hone who takes us on a journey through dinosaur science. Continue reading
Everything Icke Do…
This week’s cartoon from Dario… Continue reading
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