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Another Mountaintop summer (Lehigh University)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. Lehigh University). The fourth summer of Lehigh's Mountaintop initiative has officially begun. Teams arrived as early as 7.45 a.m. on May 24 to claim their work spaces in Bays C2 and C3 on the Mountaintop Campus ... This year's projects include. ... • Creating an educational platform that imbues players with the ability to discern science from pseudoscience without them even being aware that the learning is taking place ... ... (noodl....

University of Leicester scientist in battle to ‘stem onslaught of pseudoscience’ (University of Leicester)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016
(Source. University of Leicester) ... A University of Leicester scientist has joined leading scientists from across Europe in raising an alarm over the 'pseudoscience' concerning regulation of compounds used in agriculture, healthcare and industry ... Professor Heslop-Harrison said ... http.//www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/well-known-scientists-ready-to-stem-the-onslaught-of-pseudoscience-in-the-eu-578980091.html. ENDS. Notes to editors. ... Prof....

The EPA’s Taking on Strippers

Edit The American Spectator 23 May 2016
Shutting down low-volume wells in North Dakota is an actionable offense. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final methane rule on May 12. The 600-page rule is agenda-driven and backed by pseudoscience, emotions, and unicorn dust, and it’s important to note one specific change in the final rule amounts to a regulatory taking ... A press release issued by the National Stripper Well Association (NSWA) puts it bluntly ... ....

A carnival of the mind

Edit Deccan Herald 23 May 2016
At the Science of Consciousness conference recently in Tucson, Arizona, USA I was faced with a quandary ... Beginning in the 1990s, the field slowly became more respectable ... Faced with this vacuum, hundreds of people gathered in Tucson where wild speculations and carnivalesque pseudoscience were juxtaposed with sober sessions and data-filled talks about probing conscious brain states with PET scans and EEGs. Neural sparks ... ....

Campaign Wrap: Barrage of Polls Backs Up Quinnipiac Numbers

Edit Bloomberg 23 May 2016
Perhaps most significantly, neither candidate tops 50 percent in any of these polls, and in most cases they’re several points away from that figure—an indication that many voters are taking a wait-and-see attitude.   ... T ... Trump’s golf and hotel complex in Ireland cites global warming in an application for a sea wall permit, Politico reportsOn the campaign trail, Trump has called global warming an “expensive hoax” and pseudoscience ... ....

Pseudoscience and codswallop: when factual TV doesn't live up to its name

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 22 May 2016
If only!  ... "So what?" you might think, "Nobody believes that sort of nonsense." But they do ... For someone to be able to identify and dismantle pseudoscience or pseudohistory they need a basic knowledge of science or history to begin with, but too often the very channels that used to provide such knowledge are instead obscuring and undermining it with blatant nonsense presented as truth.  Advertisement ... E.T ... ....

These Eyedrops Are A Scam.

Edit Forbes 22 May 2016
Right next to the real eyedrops in my local pharmacy, I encountered similar-looking eyedrops that cost just as much but that are based on the wacky pseudoscience known as homeopathy. If I hadn't read the package carefully, I wouldn't have known that I was looking at hyper-expensive water rather than real medicine ... ....

Are Indians Turning To The 'Supernatural' In Subterranean Search For Water?

Edit National Public Radio 22 May 2016
i. Ambadas Raut uses copper rods known as dowsing sticks to locate sources of underground water in a dry reservoir. He's had 400 clients and says he's found water for 80 percent of them. Julie McCarthy/NPR hide caption. toggle caption Julie McCarthy/NPR ... Julie McCarthy/NPR ... The water diviner himself is mystified by the physics at work in this ancient exercise that is both dismissed as pseudoscience and hailed as special sensory perception....

Life After Death Confirmed Say British Scientists

Edit Inquisitr 21 May 2016
The existence of life after death has been debated for virtually all of human history. Rumors of an afterlife, of ghosts and hauntings, angels, demons, heaven and hell have been present in virtually all human cultures to varying degrees ... In most cases, though, discussion of life after death has been limited to the fields theology, pseudoscience and/or religion. Not anymore ... They determined that thoughts do carry on after clinical death....

Anti-Science Conservatives Unclear on Meaning of the Word Ban

Edit New York Magazine 20 May 2016
A liberal school board is infringing on their right to teach pseudoscience ... ....

MiMedx Goes After Osiris With Lawsuit

Edit The Street 19 May 2016
Wound care provider MiMedx (MDXG) is entering the legal ring again in its fight against competitors. This time, its target is Osiris Therapeutics (OSIR) . MiMedx has filed a lawsuit against Osiris alleging that the company shared clinical data results in a false and misleading manner ... "This type of pseudoscience serves no one." ... ....

The Knick review: like Ripper Street in surgical scrubs

Edit The Guardian 19 May 2016
Forget Clive Owen’s variable American accent and immerse yourself in the outrageous, cocaine-fuelled world of Victorian surgeon ‘Thack’ Thackery in this fast and furious period hospital drama ... “In the Antebellum South they would cite the Bible as justification for negro inferiority; you justify your racism using asinine pseudoscience.” This is the kind of highwire writing you get with The Knick ... ....

MiMedx Files Lawsuit Against Osiris For False And Misleading Representations (MiMedx Group Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
(Source. MiMedx Group Inc). MARIETTA, Ga., May 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- MiMedx Group, Inc. (NASDAQ ... for permanent injunctive relief and damages. The lawsuit asserts that in Osiris' press release of May 2, 2016, Osiris knowingly and willfully made false and misleading representations about a retrospective database analysis review ... Parker 'Pete' H ... This type of pseudoscience serves noone.' ... About MiMedx ... Safe Harbor Statement ... Investor Contact....
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