Sense about Science
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in General, General Science, Health, Internet, Politics | No Comments »Hi all, Okay, so I haven't written for two months. Apologies for that. I'm afraid other things have been hihger priority recently. However, I'm just writing a brief note to urge everyone to sign up on the Sense About Science petition There's ...
Fun with Fraud Ratings
Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | 2 Comments »Those of you who have been following for a while will remember my previous work on fraud ratings. Remember that a fraud rating is not claiming that a person is a fraud, lest I get sued: it is simply a ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 4
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in General, Internet | No Comments »In this final part of my 'look ahead to 2009' series, I'm looking at technology. What were the trends that dominated 2008, and what can we expect in the year ahead? There have been several large trends that have been extremely ...
Browne’s ‘Fraud Rating’ jumps sharply
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | No Comments »Here's an interesting discovery over the last week: Sylvia Browne's fraud rating has suddenly shot up by over three times! Between 29th September and 6th October 2008, despite a fall of nearly 5% in the number of web pages mentioning her ...
Interesting developments in the fraud ratings
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Internet | No Comments »Many of you will have read my original post a few weeks ago on fraud ratings. I proposed the system as a (highly flawed) method for tracking public sentiment about publicly visible paranormal claimants. Well, there have been interesting developments ...
Powerpoint Library
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education, Internet | No Comments »I've had a cunning plan. Believe it or not, it began when I watched a debate between Kent Hovind and Michael Shermer that I blogged about ages ago. I noticed that every single thing Shermer said, Hovind had a ready-prepared ...
Fraud ratings
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | No Comments »As part of my new role as Cyber-Skeptic (TM), I thought I'd start monitoring some other numbers that people might find interesting. So, here's introducing the fraud ratings system. Yet again, this comes thanks to those wonderful folks at Google. Here's ...
Operation Psychic-watch
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | 2 Comments »So I had another great idea. Lots of psychics put up predictions on their websites; predictions of events that they claim will take place at some point over the upcoming year. One of the most verbose seems to be Nikki, ...
Computational Skepticism
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in General, Internet | No Comments »Great news, folks - I think I've found my niche. I was wondering exactly how I could help in the world of Skepticism, and I was rapidly learning that what the world doesn't need is yet another skeptic blog simply ...
