Political blog Huffington Post is credulous of all kinds of woo-woo nonsense. The latest is on alternative remedies for flu (via Respectful Insolence):
The good news is that there are many alternative medicines, herbs, and treatments that can be quite effective in the fight against a wide variety of viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, to which mainstream [...]
Fairfax-owned “Essential Baby” has a typically lightweight piece on the topic of immunisation. The bottom line:
The way I look at vaccination is: there is a tiny risk of an adverse reaction, compared to a much, much bigger risk of my children contracting a host of diseases if I had chosen not to vaccinate them. I’m [...]
John Maddox died on Sunday from pneumonea at the age of 83. He was editor of Nature, the most prestigious scientific journal in existence, for 23 years. He had interesting opinions on a range of topics.
On global warming.
He thought that global warming was “going to happen sometime, and we have to do something about it,” [...]
At a time when the mining boom is grinding to a halt and Queensland’s massive works budget is in trouble, the government finds the money for the things that really count:
$1 million for ’sheep fart research’
Primary Industries Minister Tim Mulherin says many people don’t realise just how much cows nad sheep contribute to global warming.
“In [...]
Here’s a tragic little piece of irony.
Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit has looked at heat maps of antarctic warming, and noted that the Ross Ice Shelf is at the center of the warming.
Important findng right? Supports the Global Warming Hyothesis?
Yes, except that the models predicting global warming specifically predicted that the Ross Ice Shelf would [...]
Psychology today has an utterly inane article on narcissistic personality disorder, and Glenn Reynolds has fallen for it, linking to it without comment (and therefore endorsing it).
Just why is being ‘narcissistic’ a disorder? Who is being harmed? Whatever happened to plain old “character flaws?”
I’m not disputing that some people are narcissistic, nor that such people [...]