subtle shift in emphasis
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A subtle shift in emphasis
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Thank goodness it’s taken orally
Background Homoeopathy is a field of alternative medicine based on the belief that highly diluted ingredients which cause certain symptoms in healthy individuals will cure those symptoms in sick ones. Some common homoeopathic remedies include arsenic for diarrhoea, anthrax for acne and duck liver for colds and flu. To
Dogma over kindness, superstition-based moralism over humaneness
AC Grayling has written a brilliant critique of an attempt by UK religious nuts to block progressive new legislation regarding assisted suicide and euthanasia. The opening paragraph really says it all: News that the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols and the chief rabbi,
The Core of the Apple
South African Apple fans may be aware that there is a bit of a media storm raging around Stop Core, a protest site that takes aim at the sole distributor of Apple products in SA, Core Group, and specifically their pricing structures and service levels. I own several
Carnival time!
I’ve been incredibly busy the last couple of weeks (at the office until 23:00-busy, in case you think I’m exagerrating) and haven’t been able to do much else, which includes blogging. Despite that, I was pleasantly surprised to see an incoming link from the 8th Carnival of the Africans,
Hope springs eternal. But probably not.
Up late waiting for the iPhone OS 3.0 installation to complete, and I just couldn’t resist sharing this one. Posted in Humour, Odd SSiE PYA5L
Isn’t sanctimony a sin?
In the first two weeks of June, I started to notice several billboards like the one below all over my home town of Pretoria. Translation: South Africa, turn back to GOD! The wording on the Afrikaans billboards appear to be aimed at ex-Christians like myself to turn back to
Christian propaganda in Pretoria
Translation: South Africa, turn back to GOD! It would seem that the American trend for religious mass media advertising has finally reached South Africa, or at least Pretoria. In three days, I have seen three of these billboards in Pretoria: on the R21 heading north from the airport, on
It says quantum, so it must be true.
It seems that more and more pseudoscientific claims these days are ‘explained’ by the inventor or proponent simply invoking a reliance on Quantum Mechanics, after which the media and general public seem to almost willingly lose all ability to use common sense. The recent waffling by Danie Krugel
Quantum leaps to voodoo
It seems that more and more pseudoscientific claims these days are ‘explained’ by the inventor or proponent simply invoking a reliance on Quantum Mechanics, after which the media and general public seem to almost willingly lose all ability to use common sense. The recent waffling by Danie Krugel and
The plural of anecdote is not evidence
In a recent Carte Blanche episode featuring Danie Krugel, a certain Prof Heleen Coetzee was quoted with: “I think he’s done enough to show that this thing works. I know that there are certain ways of doing research, where if you have done enough of the same thing, and
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