Skeptics Forum.

Peter Kellner's analysis of the latest figures, showing a substantial Corbyn lead. (Yes, it's an opinion poll.......)

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/08/10/co ... ends-lead/

I thought this was interesting.

http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/s ... udoscience

A quick search suggests this is an "eRumour". I use unsalted butter because I like the taste. Simple.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/ ... garine.htm

They somehow omitted to mention that new LibDem leader Tim Farron also signed the pro homeopathy motion . Quite an 'oversight'... Sorry it's OT, but the New LD leader has said, to “understand Christianity is to understand that we are all sinners”. So that's that, then. God help them - they'll need ...

It is an old "Bullshit Detectives" video, but worth a look. I was actually trying to find the one where a bloke claimed that his pain was eased by what turned out to be a Werther's toffee, but I couldn't find it. Anyway...... PpiNAjXBez4 (Are those subtitles Finnish, Estonian or what??)

chaggle wrote: Can anyone think why this is sad? I think it's clever, perceptive and rather cute.

I agree. And the comments on the Telegraph article are mostly pretty perceptive too.

I'm having quite an entertaining discussion on FB with an American republican (distant relative as it happens) who has posted this as 'all the relevant facts about guns and violence'. http://www.gunfacts.info/gun-control-myths/guns-in-other-countries/#.Vg_QCM1wlVU.facebook Any comments? Why do none...

"Lavigne died in hospital after she and eight others in a personal-development seminar called Dying in Consciousness were covered with mud, wrapped in plastic, put under blankets and immobilized with their heads in cardboard boxes for about nine hours, under instructions to hyperventilate. &qu...

Well, I always thought that as muscle is denser than fat, for a given volume, muscle would be heavier than fat. Summary: Muscle density is 1.06 g/ml and fat density is (about) 0.9 g/ml. Thus, one liter of muscle would weight 1.06 kg and one liter of fat would weight 0.9 kg. In other words, muscle is...

On a lighter note, but it makes some great points.

http://shellity.blogspot.com/2012/01/ps ... -song.html

Watch carefully at the very end, you can see the "chi". How did they keep straight faces?

I am so glad I am not as awful as what you are.

David Colquhoun refers to “pseudoscientific technobabble”. And concluding, he .... thinks beauty firms, like drug companies, should be made to test their products in double-blind, randomised controlled trials, using control groups issued with placebos. If skin-care companies want to use the language...

A short comment from Michael Shermer.

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2011/09/w ... doscience/