#crap science

[fucknopseudoscience]

Conclusion

Astrology is wrong.

I wanted to put that first, just so we're clear, and to make sure you're paying attention. I'll repeat it later, too.

[fucknopseudoscience]

In this video — the fifth in our series of videos that promote science and critical thinking through the use of humor, wit, and satire — we present a Con Academy mini course in the techniques of New Age Spiritual Gurutry.

[fucknopseudoscience]

The Houston doctor Stanislaw Burzynski has been using an unproven cancer cure, “antineoplastons,” for decades, but despite its lack of proven anticancer activity, he has still not been shut down. Here is a primer for skeptics on his career and claims.

[amaluelmwood]

Anything could be a homeopathic remedy. Soluble materials could be diluted in water or alcohol. Non-soluble materials could be ground into powder (triturated) and diluted with sugar (lactose powder). Among remedies listed in the homeopathic Materia Medica are Berlin wall, eclipsed moonlight, the south pole of a magnet, dog’s earwax, tears from a weeping young girl, rattlesnake venom, and poison ivy. ... The homeopath then consults a second book, a Materia Medica, for a list of symptoms that are associated with each remedy. For natrum muriaticum, the book lists symptoms in all these areas: mind, head, eyes, ears, nose, face, stomach, abdomen, rectum, urine, male/female, respiratory, heart, extremities, sleep, skin, fever, and modalities. Examples of symptoms listed under those categories include eyelids heavy, anemic headache of schoolgirls, constipation, diarrhea, sensation of coldness of heart, palms hot and perspiring, hangnails, dreams of robbers, oily skin, warts on palms of hands, chill between 9 and 11 am, etc. It goes on and on, for pages. What is natrum muriaticum? Common table salt.

Homeopathy is fucking ridiculous. 

An Intro To Homeopathy - CSI

[ramblingliberalatheist]

So here's the most "extensive" study of gay parents. It's been pretty much completely debunked and has destroyed any credibility that the other had. This is what all anti-gay activists use to say gay parenting is harmful. First of all when arguing about gay marriage you shouldn't be arguing about children because marriage isn't what allows gay parents to have kids. There are many gay parents in the south, and all the southern states have bans on gay marriage. They try to make it about children to get more legitimacy because they don't really have anything against gay marriage. The science says that homosexuality is a natural part of human sexuality and if you can't accept that then you're denying science which is not a road anyone should embark on. I don't care what your definition of marriage is. You can have that in your own marriage, but you can't force that definition onto other people without having some sort of scientific evidence and talking about the sexual parts that males and females have is not at all proof.

[letsbefitfriends]

Interesting piece on the sugar industry's history of shady science. I think I'll have an easier time skipping the leftover Halloween candy today.

[whereangelsfear]

Geoffrey Miller has hypothesized that producing artwork functions as a mating display. Here we investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists. Initially, we derived a measure of artistic success that covered a broad range of artistic behaviors and beliefs. As predicted by Miller’s evolutionary theory, more successful male artists had more sexual partners than less successful artists but this did not hold for female artists. Also, male artists with greater artistic success had a mating strategy based on longer term relationships. Overall the results provide partial support for the sexual selection hypothesis for the function of visual art.

Status and mating success amongst visual artists Helen Clegg, Daniel Nettle and Dorothy Miell (2011)

Pass me a packet of filberts, I'm heading out to paint the town!

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