We received a note from Elhassan Errezzaki of Anezi, Morocco. It says: Could you please send me some copies of skeptic magazines or some similar skeptic magazines and books especially by James Randi , Carl Sagan , Michael Shermer , Jared Diamond and Paul Kurtz . Used copies are also appreciated .It’s hard to find […]
Month: January 2009
Love hate notice (polls)
Investigator Rose Fox writes: I saw this bit of scientific inquiry on http://www.metrolyrics.com/ and had to take a screencap: I find it impressive that 27.4% of respondents—32,417 people—either don’t notice polls or hate them AND both noticed and answered this poll.
Sexy, dark headline (research)
This week’s headline of the day is from BBC News: Sex smell lures ‘vampire’ to doom (Thanks to investigator Rose Fox for bringing it to our attention.)
The bagel danger hunters
The degree of legal peril in eating a poppy seed bagel, long rumoured and feared by the public, became clear only when two doctors conducted an experiment. Elizabeth J Narcessian and HoJung Yoon, both at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, published their finding in a 1997 study called False-Positive Urine Drug […]