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The Stern Review gets short shrift even from scientists who believe that anthropogenic global warming is a serious threat. The BBC (wonder of wonders) investigates: You can hear the entire program on the Internet here

Peer review - subjecting scientific research to expert scrutiny - is the only acceptable method to adequately judge the rigour and accuracy of the research. Recently, however the approach has come under fire as a series of high-profile scientific misconduct have exposed its many flaws. The...

Here is the link: http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=7586 Here are some choice passages:

Finished the last bit last night. Good book, adds enough on top of the magazine article to be worth at least picking up used. I'm still convinced one of the people involved in the article hangs around here. I mean, they did have stuff that we forumites couldn't easily obtain in the way of...

This weeks commentary: I found this a little jumbled and expected comment on how badly and uncritically the book had been reviewed. The opposite was the case. Maybe I'm just tired. Could/should this get a bit of a rewrite? .

I thought you guys might appreciate reading my review of this book of Sylvia Browne's, since she and Randi are mortal enemies. Review of "Prophecy: What the Future Holds for You", by Sylvia Browne and Lindsay Harrison Opening note: I do not know who Lindsay Harrison is or how much she...

The BMJ has published a review which suggests that magnet therapy is ineffective. No abstract is currently available, but the first 150 words can be seen here The story has been covered by the BBC: Perhaps someone associated with The British Instute of Magnet Therapy would care to comment?

The charity Sense About Science has published a short guide to peer review, and they are asking for it to be linked to relevant sites. You can see the link here: http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/peerreviewbuttons (still haven't worked out how to turn html code on). If you run a suitable site...

I hate to make an appeal to authority but this is from Randi's current commentary: http://www.randi.org/jr/200509/093005good.html#11 I think it is a pity that title will prevent skeptics and scientists from giving Mooney the serious attention this issue deserves. It gives them the apparent...

Hello all, I posted my website for review here several months ago and got some great feedback. I wasn't satisfied with it, and based on all the reviews, I redesigned it. What I would like is for as many people as possible to visit the site and give me feedback. Please spend a decent amount...

Hi all, It's not done yet, but I've built myself a little website. At this point, the main thing I need is for people to visit it and just let me know if everything's working. I've tested it extensively, and I think it's good to go, but I want to make sure. If anything looks out of whack...

The film was made a few years ago...57 years ago, to be precise. "The Amazing Mr. X", starring Turhan Bey in the title role. My oh my oh my, if this one isn't in The Psychic's Home Video Library, it sure should be. Every trick in the book is detailed here, on how to snooker 'em out of their...

It "exceeded" my expectations is several ways: The degree of manipulative propagandizing was almost nauseating. (Despite that I am very unsympathetic to Bush.) A line that stuck out, paraphrasing: "The military industrial complex wants to keep the population (US presumably) poor and starving."...

Just came across this reference: Vincent C, Furnham A. Complementary Medicine: State of the evidence. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1999;92:170-177. It is being cited in clinical guidance issued by the UK's National Institute for Clinical Excfellence (NICE). The journal doesn't...

I went through Kersey Graves's The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors checked his all references to Osiris. The result was very disheartening. The Osiris in the book has very little to do with the Osiris in the Egyptian myths. Moreover, in parts Graves seems to have mixed up Osiris with his son...

So I went and saw the passion of chris. Anyway, the entire movie is chris having the ever living bejesus beaten out of him. Everything is spoken in some weird language, probably esparonto or something, but there are subtitles. Anyway, the plot is pretty boring, especially since everyone knows...

One LAST stab at the hornets nest :p http://www.rationalrevolution.net/special/end_to_evil.htm Which is useless because its obvious by now that you don't read my links before you decide to comment on my posts, but anyway...

Fifteen minutes ago I realised that one of my published results is in error. I classified a computational problem into a wrong complexity class because I mishandled an exponent. And that was in a conference paper that was first read by two professors and then anonymously reviewed by three more...

We failed to find Bin Laden. We failed to find Mullah Omar. We failed to find Saddam Hussein. We failed to find ANY weapons of mass destruction. We failed to win the hearts and minds of the Iraquis. We failed to find the source of the anthrax contaminations. We failed to bring peace to the...

The full-text Cochrane Group report: Editorial peer-review for improving the quality of reports of biomedical studies Jefferson TO, Alderson P, Davidoff F, Wager E

I attended the meeting last weekend and had a great time. I posted a quick review of it on my journal if anyone’s interested in checking it out. I’ve been checking out these forums in the past few days while waiting for my account to be authorized. They look like a good place to discuss and...