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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2057074,00.html Spot the logical errors and strawmen... For example:

As evidence for the real global warming swindle, I present this conference organized by The Guardian: And who is the lead sponsor for this climate jamboree? Take a wild guess....on the left hand side http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatesummit :eye-poppi

From todays Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1740392,00.html Bang on the mark, IMHO, and this site is full of classic examples of the Dennett-Dawkins syndrome. Darwinism doesn't equal atheism. The fact of evolution does not disprove the existence of God, even if it...

For those of you who get your information about israel from the Guardian, here is how it and other papers botched an issue that is a). important, dealing with the now-infamous cartoons, and b). could have been very easily verified, as all they needed to do was pick up a copy of the Jerusalem...

A nice little piece by Ben Goldacre http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1558417,00.html There was a letter in reply by Lionel Milgrom published yesterday, but I don't seem to be able to find a web version to link to. Can anyone else? He espoused his usual twaddle about how...

There's a story (http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1414920,00.html) headlined in today's Guardian about a guide to therapies issued by the Foundation for Integrated Health. It is at least largely neutral in tone, although it does include, for example Placebo, anyone? It's...

Recently, the UK Guardian newspaper tried to influence the US elections by encouraging readers to write to residents in Clark County... Read about the idea here, and the totally unsurprising backfire responses here. Two points... What is it with Americans and their obsession with British...

Interesting to see this in today's Guardian - a double-page spread, no less, with the heading "special report". Especially surprising to see the line in bold type. There is no way that this story came to mind other than as a result of all the internet chatter so rather than simply berating...

Aaargh... from the people who print the excellent "Bad Science" column: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/farout/story/0,13028,1205167,00.html And more, and not a word about how covering them in talcum powder cuts off the effect.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,3605,1159913,00.html If the drugs don't work ... Prince Charles is championing complementary therapies for the treatment of allergies. But are they really effective? Edzard Ernst, Britain's only professor specialising in the field, presents the...

Interesting poll from "The Guardian." poll Now I don't think anyone could call "The Guardian" a pro-Bush or pro-America publication. It constantly shows Bush as a chimp in Steve Bell's cartoons, and its editorials tend to paint the US with a rather broad brush (i.e. Americans drive SUVs...

If the evolution/creation debates here are too tame for you, venture into the lion's den at http://famguardian.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=23&t=20 . The moderator's position on the subjects can be found at http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Creationism/creationism.htm . Beware, however, that...

Moved to R & P

I was reading my Guardian today (19/6) (UK national paper for non-UKers, well-loved Grauniad for UKers) and in one of the pull-outs it had an article about suspicious and well-known synthetic compounds found in some Chinese herbal remedies which almost certainly accounted for any beneficial...