A couple of years ago I helped out (actually I narrated) on a video project. The remit was to come up with some completely daft pseudoscience that no one had heard of before and then make it into a spoof. The first problem we encountered was that inventing a novel pseudoscience was really not that easy. The trouble was that virtually every idea we came up with had already been thought of. To take just one example, we tried to think of a really bizarre “cure-all”. There are plenty of cure-all ...
Those of you who have been an active skeptic for more than the last few years will have noticed that skepticism has become sexy. Suddenly everyone wants to be a skeptic. Skeptics in the Pub has gone from one meeting in London with 20 to 40 fat beardy men, to meetings all over the country, with more than 300 people turning up at the London SitP meetings including (gasp) young men and even women! I'm not sure exactly why this has happened. It is easy to credit Dawkins, Singh, Goldacre ...
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