News from some blogs may help us understand why the world didn’t end on Friday December 21st 2012.
The Stapel Fraud Anniversary and the Psychology of Meat
A year ago Diederik Stapel was exposed as a fraud. In the week before this announcement I had been analyzing his meat bastards research.
Warning to Traumeel Users Visiting the Netherlands
Traumeel is a homeopathic product sold worldwide. In the Netherlands the composition is quite different and the producer doesn’t tell you that. Why?
The Photography Tricks of Robbert van den Broeke
Dutch medium Robbert van den Broeke rose to fame in the Netherlands in the early 2000’s with his discovery of crop circles and contacts with deceased people. He made his appearance in several programmes on national TV. In 2005 he was exposed as a fraud by Rob Nanninga, board member of the Dutch Skeptical foundation Skepsis, […]
Great talk by Jamy Ian Swiss on skepticism at TAM 2012
A very inspiring talk by Jamy Ian Smith at TAM 2012. I share his vision on what skepticism should be about. Worth watching all 40 minutes!
About the study on effects of the workplace smoking ban in the Netherlands and what is wrong with it
A Dutch study shows a significant decrease of sudden circulatory arrests after implementation of a working place smoking ban, but doesn’t explain the big increase before the ban.
Memories of Shrink Chess
In Shrink Chess the board gets smaller and smaller
Automotive Ecology wins award with bogus technology
December last year I wrote a blog on kloptdatwel.nl on so called HHO-generators. These generators are meant to be built into your car and will produce a hydrogen-oxygen mixture via electrolysis. This explosive mixture (in Dutch we call it ‘knalgas‘) is used to enrich the diesel or gas your car uses. From the generator it […]
Translated article: IACH Research Award for Study on Homeopathic Prevention of Piglet Diarrhoea
A critica look at the study by Irene Camerlink and Liesbeth Ellinger on using homeopathy to prevent diarrhoea in piglets. It’s utterly flawed and proves nothing. .
Osucksy … no, Olycocks … damn!, Oscillococcinum!?
Every year it’s the same story: when people around us start coughing and sneezing and complaining of catching the flu, we see commercials for the unpronounceable product pop up on our TV screen. Oscillococcinum is back in town! This cold and flu season we saw some interesting developments with regards to this homeopathic drug; interesting from […]