Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council has issued a report concluding that: There is no good quality evidence to support the claim that homeopathy is effective in treating health conditions. The conclusion is based on the findings of a rigorous...
Urine Trouble
In Hamburg, Germany, residents of the St. Pauli neighborhood -- where partiers gather every night to fill the bars and clubs -- weren't happy that many of the men coming out of those businesses were relieving their bladders on the walls nearby. Fed up with the stench...
Google Gets Science
Phil Plait on a great change made by Google -- since so many people search for health information, the results now have a much greater emphasis on actual scientific answers, not bogus pseudoscience or anti-vaxxer garbage. For example: Read Phil's full piece here.
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
In a January 30th entry on this site, I wrote: The other night, Larry Wilmore was discussing the subject on his "Nightly Show" and one of the panelists was a woman who doesn't allow her children to be vaccinated. At one point, she said, "Do you know that the companies...
I Won’t Watch Bill Maher Again
Although I've enjoyed some of Bill Maher's act for years, there were parts that drove me crazy, like the way he berates his audience when they don't laugh at one of his lines or, more importantly, his occasional stupidity on anti-science matters. Yet I looked past...
Should We Sue Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate?
I have been talking about the dangers of anti-vaxxers for years, so the recent outbreak of measles that began at Disneyland and has infected more than a hundred people across six states really pisses me off. This is a disease we had almost eradicated 15 years ago,...
Creating Superathletes
"Faster, Higher, Stronger" isn't just the Olympics motto ("Citius, Altius, Fortius"). It's also the title of a fascinating new book by Mark McClusky, subtitled "How Sports Science Is Creating A New Generation Of Superathletes," When Mark joined me on KTRS, the topics...
Deniers Are Not Skeptics
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry has published an open letter -- signed by James Randi, Bill Nye, Ann Druyan, Daniel Dennett, Lawrence Krauss, Sanal Edamaruku, Eugenie Scott, and a slew of other scientists and Nobel Prize winners -- asking the media to stop using...