Hokum-Balderdash Assay

A relative recently had a screening mammography. She was asymptomatic, therefore, this was screening not diagnostic. Moreover, she's 45 ...

Made the after reading this completely insane thinking and behavior . So whenever you don't like what reality throws at you take some ti...

Close-up from the same image: OMG! My car's possezzed! An automobilic ectoplasmic globule has come out of the woodwork (or metalwor...

My company is all set to manufacture Pulseebo®, a cardiovascular drug indicated for hypertension, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, among oth...

The dog's argument has an implicit inference which has to be made explicit: All cats have four legs. All creatures that have four le...

Faith discriminates. In the sense that a person will choose to believe in certain ideas that are extraordinary and unsupported by evidence...

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Update (March 2016): A more comprehensive contingency table which includes detailed definitions can be viewed here .  ------------- Ho...

According to Eduardo Cabantog he's an MD who's served in various state-run hospitals in the Philippines. Some years ago he founded A...

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...