Urban Myth 1: Psychics 0

At the start of the year it is always interesting to see to sort of crappy predictions psychics make for the forthcoming year.  In some cases they predictions are so nebulous it’s a joke, in others there’s a bit of post-hoc editing. Whilst at the end of the year they trot out any vague hits [...]

Japanese whale killing is not science

I heard with interest last month on the ABC Science Show the results of an investigation into the amount of real science the Japanese are performing in their so called ’scientific’ whale research program. In summary the Japanese position is untenable and basically bullshit.
The story can be found here.
From the transcript:
Pat Quilty: And that’s [...]

The Edge Annual Question

The Edge annually asks a whole pile of very interesting and clever people an interesting question for them to answer. Here’s the link to this year where the question was “What have you changed your mind about? Why?“.
It is well worth the visit and nicely shows the difference in methods between science and religious dogma.