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See the whole article on The Guardian, here: The schoolboy blogger who took on a US clinic: Rhys Morgan, a 17-year-old Welsh schoolboy, faced down a Texan medical clinic and won after blogging about its unproven treatments It turns out there is little more uplifting than the sight of a dubious Texas medical clinic tangling with [...]
Archive for November, 2011
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Sexism, Skepticism and Civility Online Transcript – Now Out On CSICOP
November 30th, 2011 
Kylie Sturgess On Codes of Conduct, Part II - Sexism, Skepticism and Civility Online: An Interview with Jennifer Ouellette, now out on the CSICOP website! It is a transcript of some of the interview I conducted for the Token Skeptic podcast three-part interview show, Episode 88 “On Codes Of Conduct Part II – Sexism, Skepticism And Civility Online”. [...]
Token Skeptic With Sharon Hill Of Doubtful Newsblog
November 29th, 2011 Kylie Sturgess Now out on the Token Skeptic podcast. Sharon Hill is a geologist and author of the Doubtful blog about science and pseudoscience aimed at the public. She explores the intersection of science and public understanding as a student in the Science and the Public Ed.M. graduate program at the State University of New York at Buffalo (a joint initiative [...]
Eddie Izzard On Religion, Science And Atheism
November 29th, 2011 Kylie Sturgess I got to see this show when he was touring Australia and I was very glad I did! H/t to The Crommunist.
Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
November 29th, 2011 Kylie Sturgess This happens to be filmed at Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey, the school that George Hrab graduated from [/trivia]. From I09: The traffic generated by the posting of the interview took its toll on the Hayden Planetarium’s servers, so the video featured here is streaming from YouTube — but be sure to show the HP some love.
Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow Weighs In On Burzynski Clinic’s Marc Stephens
November 29th, 2011 Kylie Sturgess Representative from Burzynski Clinic sends aggressive legal threats to skeptics who question “antineoplaston” cancer therapy: …Whether or not Mr Stephens is a lawyer, his responses to several skeptics who questioned his “client”‘s science are not, in my opinion, in keeping with good science or good public policy. The world of science has no room for [...]
Australian Imprisoned On Scientology Ship Freewinds
November 28th, 2011 Kylie Sturgess Valeska Paris tells Cannane that she joined Scientology’s hardcore Sea Organization — signing its standard billion-year contract — at only 14 years of age. Three years later, after her father committed suicide and her mother denounced Scientology on French television, Paris was ordered to “disconnect” from her family. She says that church leader David Miscavige [...]
Won’t Shut Up About #Burzynski? Photograph A TEENAGER’S HOUSE To Silence Them
November 28th, 2011 Kylie Sturgess A summary of the Burzynski’s efforts to censor bloggers is here - On The Burzynski Clinic Issuing Legal Threats Against Bloggers – Support The Streisand Effect. From Rhys Morgan’s Blog - ‘Threats From The Burzynski Clinic‘: Rhys, This is my THIRD AND FINAL WARNING to you. Please convey this message to your entire Skeptic Network, which includes [...]
Schrödinger’s Cat – 60-Second Adventures in Thought
November 28th, 2011 Kylie Sturgess Blog Break – Back on Dec. 5th. Thanks to Laura.
It’s Time – Sign The Petition To End Marriage Discrimination In Australia
November 27th, 2011 Kylie Sturgess And if you think there should be unity on some issues? Start here. We’ve removed discrimination from our hearts — now it’s time to remove it from our laws. Sign the petition to end marriage discrimination. We’ll deliver it to the ALP National Conference next weekend, where the Labor Party will decide on their stance [...]
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