T4ProBalance – if you want headaches, burns and allergies
Positive ions are likely to kill you – or at least harm you – unless you wear a magic bracelet manufactured by T4ProBalance. These bracelets perform the service of “striping [sic] the air of Negative Ions”, and will apparently aid your balance, flexibility and so forth. While giving you headaches and making you sleepy.
Updated African science and skepticism blogroll
A list of African blogs that focus on science and skeptical issues. If you’re looking for content that is free of woo and mysticism of other sorts, give these a try.
More on Hawking and the (latest) death of god
Relegating God to the sidelines in this fashion has brought Hawking many headlines, and will no doubt help book sales. It’s also brought a swift flurry of predictably thoughtless responses from religious groups and leaders, who are desperate to reject the notion of God’s redundancy.
Hawking: science doesn’t need god
Unfortunately, I can’t say much about the physics underlying the claims Stephen Hawking reportedly makes in his new book The Grand Design (co-written with Leonard Mlodinow, author of the excellent The Drunkard’s Walk). First because I’m not a physicist, and second because I haven’t read the book yet. But one of the claims Hawking apparently [...]
What would it take to prove you wrong?
When claims are unfalsifiable – in other words, where no possible evidence could ever disprove them – then we have no reason to believe that they are true descriptions of the world.
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