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| | A small round-up of what I have been reading. The line "You couldn't make it up" is a rather over-used one in the UK. Nonetheless, it often seem apposite when confronting enthusiasts for Alt.Reality. Sometimes the line springs to mind when a particularly egregious example of Alt.Med abuse surfaces. One such of recent vintage comes...
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| | What is a homeopathic remedy? A sugar pill? 'Just water'? Homeopathy was named by one Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. First-rate scientist, rubbish PR person. Homeo-pathy? Awkward man - awkward word: difficult to spell, easy to lampoon. Even easier to misrepresent. My favourite skeptic skit... completely misleading, but - anything for a laugh, eh? Laughs aside, homeopathy...
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| | In part I we saw that the partisan incommensurability many CAM proponents and apologists like to invoke is vacuous: self-refuting. Therefore, it should not be surprising that this does not figure in the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn; it only appears as a straw man in the work of Kuhn's critics: or a facile philosophical redoubt...
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| My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,...