This week’s news that processed meats are carcinogenic needs a little closer look. The TL;DR is pretty much as you’d expect. *** Well, the newspapers are shouting it from the mountaintops: “Processed Meats Rank Alongside Smoking […]
Last week saw the announcement of a private nonprofit program calling itself UFODATA, or UFO Detection And TrAcking. An op-ed was published by one of the group’s board members, Leslie Kean, in the Huffington Post, […]
On Monday, I read this news story about the deaths of three teens in Florida. It’s a puzzler, to be sure. The headline reads as follows: “‘They all ended up dead’: anger lingers over students […]
In this #SkepticalTuesday #ThrowbackThursday crossover post, I write about the sad case of Wilhelm Reich, pseudoscientist. *** One of my favourite songs by Kate Bush is Cloudbusting, and my friends will tell you I’m a little obsessed with […]
Can we really speed up the clock? Not with magnets, that’s for damn sure. *** This post started last week when /u/Engr89 over in /r/skeptic posted about her or his friend’s “wine ager,” as in […]
It’s a #SkepticalTuesday on a Wednesday post. A #SkepticalWednesday, if you will. *** So the Washington Post published this article the day before yesterday in their Health and Science section. It’s called “Acupuncture may help […]
Is not getting a degree as bad for you as smoking? Well, it depends on what you mean. *** Last week a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE came to my attention. It had […]
In this week’s #SkepticalTuesday post, I take a look at the statistics of death in the workplace and debunk the claim that it’s a disproportionately dangerous place for women. Read on, skeptics. *** Last week, […]
Well, yes, actually, they are. *** This recent piece in the Guardian, entitled “Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data,” is an examination of a rather positive analysis of the […]
I feel like I must be saying the wrong things on facebook, because the stuff that gets served up to me is… well, maybe it’s because I click it out of curiosity that it might […]