Woo medicine kills 27 Jan 2010 A nice roundup from New Zealand; note the case of the baby with meningitis. The case is a coroner’s case. Science
Creationism and Intelligent Design The tautology problem 20 Aug 2009 A long time ago I wrote a not particularly good piece on the tautology problem: that natural selection is merely circular definition. I was just out of being an undergraduate when it was published, so it was at best an undergraduate piece. I have been unsatisfied with it ever since…. Read More
General Science Computers aren’t science 25 Nov 2009 As I read the science feeds for various sites, I am struck how often people are reporting on computers and computer techniques. News flash: Computers aren’t science, any more than glass blowing is chemistry or addition is physics. Computing is a mathematical technique that uses electronic shortcuts. Computation is an… Read More
Epistemology Religion and truth revisited 7 Jul 2009 Chris Schoen, he of the u n d e r v e r s e, has a piece up on Coyne’s challenge to the religious as to why Scientology’s absurd etiology of Xenu and souls in volcanoes is any less stupid than the etiologies of the Catholic, Jewish and Islamic… Read More
It is perhaps , particularily significant that the wonderful intertubes preserved the appropriate hyphenation In the ultimate word of this sentence! “Unhealthy eye colours — green, white, yellow, orange or hazel — can be changed, they say, through dietary modifications. This has yet to be demon-strated.” I await the Demon-stration!!