Alright, I admit it. I went a little overboard with last week’s edition of Your Friday Dose of Woo. This feature was intended to be a light-hearted look at whatever particular woo target that catches my fancy on a given week, as opposed to the more serious discussions of alternative medicine I like to do […]
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Zoinks! Why didn’t anyone think of this before? This week’s Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle starts out in the Mystery Machine, courtesy of Big Heathen Mike at Mike’s Weekly Skeptic Rant: We join the gang as everyone got ready for a weekend adventure… Everyone piled into the stretch Mystery Machine and headed off on our […]
Tangled Bank
The latest Tangled Bank has been posted at a fellow skeptic’s blog, Salto Sobrius, who, it just so happens, is also scheduled to host the Skeptics’ Circle in September. Go catch up on the best science blogging of the last two weeks. Speaking of the Skeptics’ Circle, you still have a few hours left to […]
If Your Friday Dose of Woo from me isn’t enough woo for you, now Medgadget has inaugurated a new feature it calls Pseudoscience Friday (its first target: bioresonance testing). Between the two blogs, plus the Amazing Randi, that ought to be all the woo any skeptic could want to see debunked every Friday! In the […]
As hard as it is to believe, we’re up to the third week of Your Friday Dose of Woo. And, at week 3, I’m still having the same problem: too many targets of woo, so many so that they overwhelmed my tired brain not unlike Lionel Milgrom’s quantum homeopathy becoming quantumly entangled with my neurons. […]