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How to change your Mind – and why it is good for you
It’s funny how we all recognise confirmation bias in others but a loath to see it in ourselves. Yet it is only human – and in fact the desire to fit new evidence into existing models in our mind does...
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Fluoride debate: The scientific evidence against fluoridation – Rita F. Barnett
Recently an unpublished paper by Rita F. Barnett, an associated professor of Legal Research and Writing at Chapman University, was heavily promoted by Paul Connett’s Fluoride Action Network and...
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Fluoride debate: Response to Daniel Ryan’s critique – Rita Bartlett-Rose
Rita F. Barnett Rita Barnett-Rose, author of “Compulsory water fluoridation: Justifiable public health benefit or human experimental research without informed consent” has replied to Daniel Ryan’s...
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Catch 22 in Ukraine
MH17 recovery team finally start work at crash site. Credit: RIA Novosti. Alexey Kudenko The Dutch team investigating the MH17 Malaysian Airline crash in eastern Ukraine report it has problems...
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The MH17 blame game
I know this is provocative, but couldn’t help thinking of the blame game going on around the MH17 tragedy (the Malaysian plane shot down over Eastern Ukraine in July) when I saw these on social media....
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The victims of terror
Appropriately, some of the most effective protests against the most recent act of terrorism has come from cartoonists. Let’s hope the pencil, and brush, are mightier than the weapons of terror.
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“I just know”
This is from a satirical site – but the trouble is many people seems to think this way. They are continually commenting on blogs and other social media and think their arguments trump science! From The...
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Why is Vladimir Putin so popular in the USA?
Photo credit: REUTERS Most readers are aware that Russian President Vladimir Putin has a very high popularity rating in his own country – a rating that most politicians would die for. But it turns...
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Being open-minded
This meme is for those commenters here who accuse me of having a closed mind. I am always happy to change my opinion or view of things – if there is evidence to suggest I should. And no, claims that...
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Rapid change in attitudes to marriage equality
Click the image to go to the video (unfortunately I can’t embed the video here). The video demonstrates “The Stunning 15-Year March to Marriage Equality Around the World.” And it certainly shows how...
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