Podcasting has definitely gone mainstream(evidence: even my 60 odd year old parents have an understanding of what podcasting is). Now while the technology required has become relatively cheap and ease of use means that you don’t need to have years of experience to adequately write record and produce, there is also no barrier to filter [...]
The Wakefield MMR case in under 5 minutes – Rebecca Watson
February 6, 2010 4 Comments
Rebecca Watson of Skeptics Guide to the Universe Podcast on the recent Wakefield case.
Further information can be found on Wakefield below:
‘Callous, unethical and dishonest’: Dr Andrew Wakefield
MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism
Steampunk Saturday – Bartitsu and the Violence of Victorian era fighting
February 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
It’s not often that I get to write about two favourite past times of mine and apply a skeptical eye to both. If you are lucky enough to have seen the new Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jnr. then you will have seen the fight seen below.
So what do you think? Was the fight scene [...]
ANZAB Blogroll Maintenance
February 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
My perceptive readers will have noticed that the ANZAB rolling blogroll has disappeared from the sidebar. This is a temporary solution to a bug that is causing the blog to become unreadable in Firefox browsers.
Studiopress, who created the Genesis theme I am using will be releasing a bug fix soon (early next week) [...]
Belief in a sky fairy may get you a lighter sentence
February 5, 2010 1 Comment
From the Times Online:
Cherie Blair is to be investigated by the organisation that deals with complaints against judges after she gave a more lenient sentence to a Muslim offender because he was “religious”.
The Judicial Complaints Office is to look into a complaint by the National Secular Society that Mrs Blair, who practises law under her [...]
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Extremism is ugly… but not quite as ugly as Bryan Patterson’s jumbled thoughts on Atheism