Yes, the International Guild of Knot Tyers Forum is a source of news and gossip about the International Guild of Knot Tyers. The organization’s lovely logo is reproduced here. The Forum is where Dan Lehman writes about the birth of the New Knot Claims Assessment Committee of the International Guild of Knot Tyers: My motivation for establishing the New-Knot Claims […]
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Hurling those giddy neat-and-tidy-science stories
William Heisel [pictured here] looks at some of the (much) more spectacular neat-and-tidy-science stories some people giddily hurl at the public: What [are we to] make of the parade of scientific claims first marketed through magazine cover stories and PowerPoint talks as breakthroughs only to be proven with increasing regularity to be more fiction than […]
“Responsible” Physicians, Hot Dogs, Cigs & Ig Nobel Prizes
The fantastically imaginative group called “Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine” — they once even tried to hijack the Ig Nobel Prizes! (see below) — has come up with another doozy. The Tehran Times reports, via something called ChristianPost, on a press release issued by the group: Eating hot dogs as risky as smoking cigarettes? Hot dogs are […]