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https://skepticsalamanderblog.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-best-method-to-use-in-quest-for.html Article discusses peoples false sense of truth, the problems with opinion media, and the best method to find truth.

I am very pleased to announce that a ground-breaking survey conducted on the issue of people’s opinions regarding vaccines and vaccination has been published; the work was a joint project of the James Randi Educational Foundation and Women Thinking, Inc. and it gets to the heart of how those of...

Do you think it is possible to directly measure the wave-function of quantum mechanics?

I keep seeing references to this paper by Mathie, 2003 - The research evidence base for homeopathy: a fresh assessment of the literature, [Homeopathy (2003) 92, 84–91], where it is reported: "Results. 50 papers report a significant benefit of homeopathy in at least one clinical outcome measure...

Oklahoma legislator Todd Thomsen last week proposed a resolution that would condemn a visit by scientist Richard Dawkins to the University of Oklahoma for presenting "a biased philosophy on the theory of evolution to the exclusion of all other divergent considerations rather than teaching a...

Hi Very interesting article in Science News this week: "How the Snake Got its Fangs." It turns out that difficulty of placing snakes in the evolutionary tree, with fang-placement seemingly scattered about, has been addressed by a researcher named Freek Vonk. Ok - I've all but given away...

http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54910/;jsessionid=639C8556078C2C552B4BAF3441E6AF7F Why and who is doing this?

US doctors kill skin cancer with cloned T-cells This is incredible! And I'm sure it is just a start. Designer immune system cells, drugs, or nanotechnology, take your pick. Soon we'll just be injecting the designer cures into people and away they will go to destroy the targeted disease cells...

In an article of the guardian, Marc Abrahams (editor of the bimonthly Annals of Improbable Research and organiser of the Ig Nobel Prize) writes about the study of Frederick R. Carrick on the effect of the music of his favourite singer Nolwenn Leroy on human beings. He called these effects "the...

Firstly, greetings. I haven't posted for years so I may as well be a newbie. I have been trying to make my way in the world as a freelance writer, usually covering health topics. I consider myself to be a reasonably skilled Googler but sometimes I find it very difficult to obtain the research...

Do we generally know where the big conspiracy theories got started? I don't mean in general, I mean do we know the exact name of the first guy to say/write that Oswald wasn't the lone shooter (or that the Apollo moon landing was faked or whatever)? This seems like a really obvious question...

I just heard on NPR that a study has been published which would indicate that studies which are positive of psychiatic medication usage are published at a rate of 90% as compared to studies which are negative of use which are published at 8%. So there is a definite bias in publishing research...

It seems that scientists have made embryonic stem cell equivalents created from adult human skin cells! http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/20/stem.cells.ap/index.html eta: time article http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1685965,00.html?cnn=yes

CHIMERA GO AHEAD 15:19:45 05/09/2007 Public okays human-animal hybrid embryos The public gave the thumbs up to creating human-animal hybrid embryos – chimeras – once research objectives and methods were made clear, says the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Initial...

Hello, I run a number of experiments off our lab website (vacognition.wjh.harvard.edu). Most take about 5 minutes, and at the end you can find out what it was all about. This is a variation on the open-source movement -- instead of paying a small number of people to spend a lot of time in the...

My belief? Computing power. If computing power is doubled multiple times, then researchers in practically every field of science, medicine and technology can use massive simulations instead of real-time research. Will a particular medicine have negative effects on people? Take the...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2524408,00.html I certainly didn't know anyone would care that the sheep were gay or not... I'm not gay, but I don't know if I'd care if sheep were being made to reproduce in a fairly natural fashion if I was gay. I mean, it's not like the...

For those interested http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=4982&&&edition=1&ttl=20061212121618 I can't access my personal email from work so can't complete my registration. I wanted to post a link to this EU on the need for non-human primates in biomedic research...

Hi. My name is Patrick and I am conducting research for a PhD in Psychology at Newcastle University, UK. I am conducting a study on beliefs and personality and am looking for participants. If you have 10-20 minutes to spare, then please help me out and go to the link below. Most people find...

From today's Louisville Courier Journal (free registration required; go to Features and search Cancer Vaccine): This work is from the same group (The Brown Cancer Center) which earlier developed a vaccine for cervical cancer.

CNN, November 3, 2006 How did he get tenure to begin with?

Discussing ghosts on another forum and this question was asked,I don't know.Has there ever been any?

I don't post much here anymore, but I saw this article on Fark and was so moved that I had to share it: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15784278.htm What an amazing person. She lived wisely and modestly, then gave her fortune for the betterment of science and to help those suffering...

My favorite paranoid delusional conspiracy theorist continues his research into all the things we shouldn't know about that are really on Mars (trees, vegetation, lakes, animal remains, fabricated objects) but which are being systematically covered up by automatic image tampering software by...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/26/bird.grammar.ap/index.html Very interesting!

Following on a little from my "are all mediums con artists" thread and purely out of curiousity, has anyone on here/or would anyone on here consider volentering(sp?) to become a research sitter in Gary Schwartz mediumship experiments. http://veritas.arizona.edu/sitter.htm Admittedly i'm a...

And this time, I think we're talking about something that shows promise: First of all, some background. Some year's back, The National People's Health Institute (Nasjonale Folkehelseinstituttet) in Norway had another project going on with regards to expecting mothers. So far, 60 000 mothers and...

Colin "Mr. Crop Circle" Andrews attempted to sell his crop circle research library on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Colin-Andrews-Crop-Circles-Research-COMPLETE-ARCHIVE_W0QQitemZ6225615156QQcategoryZ413QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem What, no bids from prestigious universities?:crazy: ~~ Paul

Is anything wrong with: * Private companies making money off research/inventions made in public universities? * A professor who uses the resources in the public university to make a discovery or an invention, who then quits, manufactures the invention and becomes a billionaire? Should the...

This is from Bob Parks' "What's New" column: I know we've done this to death, but I also think that the general view has been to keep an open mind whenever further evidence (or should that be in quotation marks?) is presented. Is it time to close the book on homeopathy? BillyJoe.