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The pressure group - Sense About Science have produced a leaflet pointing out where various celebs have erred in their product endorsements and such like. Read the leaflet here. BBC News.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/rumsfeld-resigns-in-poll-fallout/2006/11/09/1162661785320.html This can only be for the better...

This idea has been churning in my mind ever since I learned the relativistic equations for time/mass/length dilation and read that I should be thinking of spacetime as four-dimensional. I've never sat down to see if it's actually consistent, though it certainly appears that way to me now. I'm...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4828238.stm

wow, an awesome new website with a downloadable pdf that explains peer review to the public! ("I don't know what to believe") http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/ :) :) (btw, i searched, but didn't find this in other threads. so, if it's already posted, blame Darat!! :) )

This was written up in the New York Times recently. Check it out! http://www.venganza.org/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/08/AR2005080801148.html Of course, MADD and the police are not happy about this trend. A Virginia couple was sentenced to 8 years in jail (reduced to 8 months) for such a party. The police have decided to raid parties like this...

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600 according to The New Scientist ....

New scientists list of 13 things that don't make sense. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600 Help me out with number 4 guys. Any holes in the process of this experiment? Or is still up in the air with other labs yet to figure out what happened?

There's an interesting article on newscientist.com that is ripe for skeptical commentary: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600 The title, "13 things that do not make sense," is obviously designed to provoke more than illuminate. A better title might be, "Some things we...

Beth Clarkson, amongst others, seems to be trying to change the word "anecdotal" to mean any particular data point, even when used as a counterexample against a generalisation (which is nonsense). On the other hand, skeptics are not forthcoming in giving a definition. I thought originally that...

...than the omnibenevolent Christian God, that is ? We had Gods with great powers but not omnipotent. And certainly not omnibenevolent. They liked to hate each other and also have fun with humans. They loved to disguise as humans or animals and rape beautiful women or kill their enemies. They...

We have a 8 year old Aussie Shepherd mix, who, a couple times a year, is subject to "seizures", which last maybe 10 to 15 minutes, then everything is normal for the next six months. This includes temporary paralysis, limb stiffness, shaking, glassy eyes, etc. When this has happened in the...

A horrible thing, the draft. Makes for a bad army. There really is no good reason for it. There is an attempt to get it started from time to time. I believe the thinking is that if politicians had their own kids drafted into the army, they would be less likely to run off to war. Experience...

A thought just occurred to me that Hurricane Frances should be hitting Florida soon after "W" accepts the GOP nomination for president. Is this "God's way" of sending a message to the people of Florida that they better not vote for Bush this go-round. I know this is silly, but I thought it was...

I think it is a toss up between the 'action' movies, like Die Hard II, and some of the arthouse films. Die Hard II was just so predictable, that is, you knew it would end ok, and the baddies would die, and there would be several explosions and plot twists. Ho hum. Contrast this with 'Scenes...

Found here: http://digerati.edge.org/3rd_culture/moral_test03/moral_test_index.html

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