Following on from yesterday’s post (“psychic Sally has got a huge pair of crystal balls) about Sally suing the Daily Mail, I was very interested to read the blog of Simon Singh today as he follows up the story. Quoted from his blog (link) he has been analysing the data from the reviews of her [...]
The nerve of some people. Not content with being a fraud, a charlatan, a memory-raping “medium” and a self-promoting parasite, Sally Morgan has the gall to sue a newspaper for printing a story highlighting her con-woman ways (by Paul Zenon, link below). TV psychic Sally Morgan is demanding damages of £150,000 from Associated Newspapers over a Daily [...]
The book offers rebuttals to (among many other things) psychic powers, homeopathy, Holocaust deniers, and moon hoaxers. And anti-vaxxers. The excerpt below is from Harrison’s chapter on why vaccines are safe and sound and avoiding them hurts us all: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES Heated debates that pit science against pseudoscience — evolution versus creationism, for example — [...]
I’ve blogged about quackery many times before. (see here, here, here, and here). However, you can never have too much mockery of woo, so here is something I found hilarious: (click on the image for the full size version) The below section of it made me chuckle the most because it’s so true: As ever, I always [...]
Imagine a world in which any intellectual property holder can, without ever appearing before a judge or setting foot in a courtroom, shut down any website’s online advertising programs and block access to credit card payments. The credit card processors and the advertising networks would be required to take quick action against the named website; [...]
Just watch, in disbelief probably, at this “performance” from 2 young Christians. Well, I say “Christians”, but they’re really just young children brainwashed by Christians. It’s quite clear that even in this reasoned day and age that the systematic abuse of children by way of brainwashing them into believing something that is simply not true [...]
It is now 2012, and there is an election looming this year which will affect all of us profoundly. Living in Britain, I don’t meet many people with a direct interest in American Politics, but merely being a member of the human animal species makes what happens in America important to us. I wish it [...]
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So, ITV’s director of television, Peter Fincham has demanded that the Jonathan Ross show be censored. Did someone say the C word on national tele, set a cute puppy on fire, or abuse a child? No, Tim Minchin, as usual, sang a satirical Xmas song about Jesus. Something they really should have expected given that they [...]
Forget any awards show squabbles amongst the rich and famous, Ricky Gervais is in the midst of a public argument with some of the most hateful people on the planet. I’ve been following the squabbles with much interest, as it has really shown some of these so-called “Christians” up for the hateful, ignorant, bile-filled wackjobs [...]
