Archive for April, 2009

Anti-vaccinationism, fear-mongering and bad science at its best

April 24 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Pseudoscience, Vaccination

Recently, Jim Carrey has taken up the anti-vaccination banner along with his girlfriend, and mother of an autistic son, Jenny McCarthy. (You can see the blog post here) The anti-vaxx movement is not something new, infact, it’s been around since the inception of vaccines with the use of cow pox to prevent infection from small [...]

Another gap filled

April 22 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Creationism and Intelligent Design, Evolution, Pseudoscience, Science

Every so often, scientists do what they’ve been told can’t be done, that is to say, they find something in the natural world that proves previous predictions. In this case, earlier in the week a team from the Canadian Museum of Nature published their findings in Nature on what is believed to be a close [...]