austroscepticus

I imagine Ben Goldacre was thinking this when in February LBS Radio “journalist” Jeni Barnett went on her ridiculous rant about MMR vaccination and over the course of her show spread nonsense beyond imagination. Besides having obviously no idea what goes into vaccines, she admitted to that which didn’t stop her from continuing to talk rubbish, she used the withered old argument of big pharma conspiracies. She accused these of creating fear while doing exactly the same. The refuted argument that vaccines were responsible for Autism was of course also thrown in there. Mehr…

Really, I am.

There are dozens of excellent blogs about skepticism and critical thinking out there. Why another?

Do we need yet another skeptic to be critical of know-nothing politicians and celebrities, UFO sightings, conspiracies, uncritical journalism, homoeopathy, so-called psychics, astrology, New Age medicine, anti-science and Creationism? Mehr…