It appears that several people, including the increasingly conservative-blinded editor of Arts and Letters Daily, seem to think that the editor of Medical Hypotheses was sacked because “he allowed the debate of controversial ideas.” This is incorrect. The reason why the editor was sacked is that he allowed an author to publish fraudulent arguments in [...]

This week Archbishop George Pell joined the Vatican’s war against truth with an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald claiming that condoms were not effective in preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted disease. Actually, he went two steps further than that: …[A]ll of us who want to help prevent and reduce the spread of [...]

I’ve been meaning to put Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science on the blogroll for some time now. Goldacre is the author of a great book called (wait for it) Bad Science. The book is based on the articles he has written as a columnist for the Guardian over recent years. One chapter, however, was not published because [...]