This picture pretty much sums up why you can’t trust the BBC’s science and news coverage; it’s a grab from the Google News – Health feed a couple days ago. Compare the BBC headline -”Homeopathy ‘eases cancer therapy’” – to the CBC headline: Homeopathic remedies offer little cancer-treatment relief. For those unfamiliar with the basic [...]
Thu, April 16 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I was all set to take down this article by Virginia Postrel in the March issue of The Atlantic, but Merrell Goozner has done a better a job than I could have. Goozner’s post is long, but worth reading in full. Goozner makes clear that Postrel is wrong wrong wrong on the science, but she’s [...]
Tue, February 17 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
A novel crime against decency by Duncan Cross
