I have been taking part in a debate recently on Richard Wiseman’s blog after his post Chiropractic evidence: The curious case of the missing study. This basically follows on from the British Chiropractic Association who are suing Simon Singh for libel following his comments in a guardian article. Wiseman points to a controlled study by Olafsdottir and colleagues in [...]

With all the negative press teenagers get the media would have you believe that Britain’s kids are out of control, knife wielding, hooligans with nothing better to do than take drugs and earn themselves an ASBO. Well this little study  conducted by Penguin books suggests that perhaps they aren’t all that bad after all, they are [...]

This is seriously going to piss off all those creationists who laugh at the idea dinosaurs evolved into birds. Got to love the evidence; although the artists reconstruction does look a little like it is a two headed monster. There is two of them there right? Thanks to @Richard_Dawkins on Twitter for the link.

Yes that’s right, according to the British Homeopathy Association from June 14-21 is Homeopathy Awareness Week. Presumably the less of us that know about it the more powerful effect this week will have on the community. So to help raise awareness here are the two basic rules of homeopathy; Like cures like, so if you take something and [...]

Stories like this depress me, so a freedom of information request by More4 News revealed that the NHS are spending millions of pounds on a treatment that time and time again has shown to work no better than a placebo. I especially detest the ridiculous arguments made in defence of this clear shameful promotion of [...]