Devoid of Thought

The Hi-Fi world has long been a great source of bad science. Convincing audiophiles to spend vast sums of money just to eek out that bit of extra ‘clarity’ or something. Like a £75 kettle lead or this clever pen. But it’s really good to know that some Amazon reviewers have a sense of humour as evidenced by this Denon Cable that retails for $500. Read more »

Come on then, explain THIS! I don’t want any of that crazy talk about refraction and water droplets either.

The high-priestess of the Church of Woo clearly needs some advice in the use of ‘teh internetz’. Full facts (and timeline) here. And some extra commentary here, here and here.

It must have amusing as hell to watch all this unfold. Maybe time to start using that twitter account…

Sometimes I think I watch a different game to everyone else. Make no mistake, England certainly failed to set the World Cup alight, but was it really as bad as the media would have us believe? I mean, really? To be honest I was less enthused about the chances of this England squad than I had been for any previous World Cup – no first choice keeper, lack of cover for the full backs and centre backs, no natural left sided midfielder and no obvious goalscoring second striker. It didn’t bode well. And so it proved.
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I’d have thought that of all the sports, F1 is the most likely to be immune from woo science. But alas no. This from the Red Bull F! website.

If you have a look at FIR-TEX website, there is this hilarious disclaimer (bold mine): Read more »

Group A contains South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, & France

South Africa
A tough group for first African hosts of the World Cup. Mexico in the opening match of the tournament, followed by the under-achieving (and controversial qualifier) France and the underrated Uruguay. If they get off to good start, a draw against Uruguay might just see them clinch second place. But I doubt it.
Man to Watch: Steven Pienaar
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Now, I’ve not really come across the ‘Natural News’ website before, but someone there has written an article about me. Well, not specifically me, but it’s an article about what skeptics believe, and as I’m a bit of a skeptic (honestly!) it’s supposed to be about what I believe.

Unfortunately, it’s a load of tripe and I actually believe in nothing on his list. Well, okay, just one thing:

Water is inert, they say, and the water your toilet is identical to water from a natural spring (assuming the chemical composition is the same, anyway)

Anyway, the whole article is just a load of uninformed rubbish. It would be easy to deconstruct practically every sentence, oh wait, it’s already been done, probably far better than I could. Read it here.

A new campaign has appeared on the web with a stated aim of getting Boots (the Chemist) to stop selling homeopathic ‘remedies’. Boots themselves have admitted they’ve searched for evidence of efficacy and found none, yet they continue to sell them alongside proper medicines. Boots’ place on the high street thus gives homeopathic ‘remedies’ some sort of legitimacy simply because they sell them.

But who is behind this campaign? All is revealed right here.

I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives. By following the simple advice I heard on a Medical TV show, I have finally found inner peace. A Doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started.

So I looked around my house to see things I’d started and hadn’t finished,and, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of shhardonay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of vocka, a pockage of Prunglies, tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valum scriptins, the res of the Chesescke an a box a choclits.

Yu haf no idr hou fkin gud I feal.

Peas sen dis orn to dem yu fee AR in ned ov inr pis.

It takes a special kind of cat to become an accredited hypnotherapist. Oh wait, no it doesn’t.