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Intelligent design/creationism Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Yet another example of credulity begetting credulity

Thanks to a commenter going by the ‘nym of djm, I found in a comment yet another hilarious example of how credulity towards pseudoscience of one form often goes hand-in-hand with other forms of pseudoscience. It looks as though the “intelligent design” creationists are down with Steorn’s claimed free energy machine as “evidence” against materialism:

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Friday Woo Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: The miracle of clean

It was a rough day yesterday. I spent a long time in the O.R. It was one of those days that I couldn’t figure out what happened. The number of operations that I had to do should have allowed me to finish operating by around 2 PM, leaving me time to do other things that […]

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The 64th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: New Truth University

As hard as it is to believe, it’s that time again, time for a bracing dose of reality in response to the rampant credulity that permeates the blogosphere. I apologize for my announcement being later than usual; I was in the O.R. all day and only this evending did I have an opportunity to do […]

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Medicine Politics Religion

More on doctors and terrorism

The other day, I wrote about how several of the suspects arrested in the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow were physicians or in training to be physicians. At the time, I expressed dismay at what I viewed to be a betrayal of the very basis of our profession, that we try to help […]

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Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Repeat after me: Conservation of energy precludes perpetual motion machines

Here we go again. After falling for such claims enough times, you’d think that journalists would go back to the physics textbooks and read up on the basics, you know, like the Three Laws of Thermodynamics. You’d especially think that a techy website like Engadget would know better than to hype this stuff without a […]