In James Shapiro’s history of the Shakespeare skeptics, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare, he mentions in passing a historian and Lutheran minister with the irresistible name of Samuel Mosheim Schmucker. Schmucker was the author of a work entitled Historic Doubts about Shakespeare, which may have been the first published work suggesting that Shakespeare, if [...]
by VorJack
I really don’t want to be the one to rain on Custador’s “UK, F%@# Yeah!” parade, but … well, OK, yes I do.
Yesterday, Martin Robbins had an editorial on The Guardian, the title of which challenges the notion that the Brits are always more subtle than us yanks:
‘Choice’ fetish spawns mind-meltingly stupid homeopathy [...]
by VorJack
One debate that has passed me by is the male infant circumcision debate. It always catches me off guard when I suddenly find people with very developed opinions on the matter.
So, in the interest of my education: What are your arguments for or against male infant circumcision?
I was really happy to hear that Simon Singh won his libel appeal. He had the audacity to discuss scientific studies on chiropractic medicine and explain it’s shaky history in an article in Guardian (and later in Trick or Treatment), and for that the British Chiropractic Association sued him for libel.
[At first] the High Court had said [...]
Pat Robertson recently had heart surgery. It was successful, and in a statement Pat said:
Only the prayers of thousands of believing people kept me on this earth.
Way to give credit where credit is due, Pat! Most people give their doctors some of the credit, and others give it all to God. But Pat gives the [...]
Few people seem to know what homeopathy is. They assume it means natural medicine, when really it’s far more quack.
In a nutshell, homeopathy is the belief that the more diluted a substance is, the stronger it becomes. To treat a symptom, they dilute a substance that would normally cause it, which magically makes it have [...]
Scientists have found a way to turn adult pig cells into any tissue in the body, just like embryonic stem cells:
Dr Xiao’s team reprogrammed cells taken from a pig’s ear and bone marrow, using a cocktail of chemicals introduced into the cells via a virus.
Tests showed that the reprogrammed cells were capable of becoming any [...]
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