Today, we began lecturing about one of the hardest things to discuss: how creationism and intelligent design are not science. I know . . . to a scientist who keeps their scientific life separate from their religious life, this sounds strange. But the reality is that for many people without […]
Good timing! The company – Boiron – that produces that same homeopathic sleeping pill that we overdosed on in Friday’s lecture also recently published a TERRIBLE study of their migraine “remedy.” It’s a great example of how bad science can seem legitimate by making its way into a journal. The […]
“It’s raining (on veteran’s day)” a poem by Stephen J. Sekula It’s raining on Veteran’s Day (cliché), and when I walked up to the wall – rain drenching the National Mall – I ran my hands along its dark and glistening surface where the names are carved, cracks in a […]
I thought it might be useful to write a short post on what is rapidly becoming one of my favorite lectures in Cultural Formations B/Physics 3333 at SMU: homeopathy. Prof. Randy Scalise and I delivered the lecture yesterday, and the audio is available here (I excerpted it from the recording […]
Short, well-written and thoughtfully considered excursions into the heart of science. Thanks, Brian! Skeptoid: Critical Analysis Podcast Skeptoid is a weekly science podcast dedicated to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture, and replacing them with way cooler reality. This was posted on Google+…
