Hokum-Balderdash Assay

A recent example of an ad hominem argument. After being provided Neil deGrasse Tyson's " Perimeter of Ignorance " paper (s...

Back in 1996, in the chapter The Fine Art of Baloney Detection, Carl Sagan used this example to illustrate the post hoc ergo propter hoc fa...

 According to a news article which just got posted on Richard Dawkins' website , a study shows that "people with higher IQs are le...

Jerry Coyne has just come out with a science-and-religion-are-incompatible article.He doesn't provide anything novel but what he says h...

I downloaded a copy of the bible. I then deleted it from my hard disk. Will fatheists be offended? Will I be accused of irreverence and dese...

I really don't get all the brouhaha over the planned (but eventually aborted) burning of Korans. Much ado about ink and paper. And over ...

If I had kids I'd indoctrinate them to ask the following: How do we it's true, that is, what are our reasons for believing? How good...

Census taker came by this noon and I had to spend some ten minutes providing her the number of people in our household, birthdate, education...

Richard Dawkins was recently in Australia and stole the limelight in a Q&A episode on religion [ Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Par...

A systematic review of ten RCTs for labor pain showed that needling was no better than no intervention, analgesics, or sham acupuncture. Ed...

Two-month old news but I just heard about it. The Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stenting Trial (CREST) was a 9-year, multice...

On the heels of Simon Singh's victory, we have the following assessment of chiropractors' claims on the Internet by Ernst and Gilbe...

Philosopher Michael Ruse isn't exactly a fan of the Four Horsemen even as he is very much against creationism and its current evolution...

The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) has dropped its libel case against Simon Singh. They thought they could intimidate and silence S...

Replace "Dilution Delusion" with "Homeopathy." Yes, folks, homeopaths are actually celebrating awareness of their 200-...

Well, it's about time someone from the inside spoke up and call for The Rat's resignation. It's not just a matter of comman...

Take a cup of consecrated host and another cup of unconsecrated ones. Pour their contents into a jar, put the lid on and mix well. Now ask t...

Yesterday I mentioned Linde et al.'s 2009 Cochrane review and how the authors noted that having needles  anywhere on the skin is as eff...

Michael Specter of the New Yorker talks about how science is essential, how the antiscience sentiment is misplaced. Best line: We run awa...

It's worse than I thought. The problem of publication bias in China is nothing compared to this .  Ghostwriting, plagiarizing or fakin...