Steven Novella
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The host of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, and science blogger extraordinaire.
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New systematic review finds no evidence cupping is helpful for athletes, but then they recommend more research. No, we don't need more research to know that a silly pre-scientific superstition-based treatment in not effective medicine.
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I am calling out Georgian College in Ontario and Dean Fay Lim-Lambie for promoting homeopthy pseudoscience and watering down academic legitimacy.
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Rare yellow cardinal spotted. If you keep a bird feeder, you will occasionally see rare birds, but this is really rare, and beautiful.
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While it's chic to make light fun of Paltrow's Goop conference - make no mistake. She is a hardcore snake oil peddler promoting dangerous nonsense.
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This was inevitable, and not the only case - man who called social distancing madness dies of Covid-19 () Nothing like a pandemic to give you a reality slap in the face - but it just doesn't matter for too many people.
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CA ER docs spreading dangerous misinformation. Fortunately, David Gorski takes them down nicely:
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This is the kind of news story that has huge implications, but will not get nearly the attention it deserves. Treasure trove of rare earth's discovered.
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Interview on a Chicago radio station about the COVID pandemic. I didn't realize until I was on what their political orientation was -
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Orioles are back. Put out some oranges, and they will come.
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Red crested cardinal. It's actually a tanager, not closely related to cardinals. Introduced to Hawaii from South America. More from my Hawaii trip coming.
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Climbed to the top of Diamond Head crater. Now I know how Sam and Frodo felt. You know - if you add actual flowing lava and 15,000 hostile orcs.
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Once again, we have to rewrite the timeline of human evolution. Probably still many fossils out there that will force further revisions.
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Dave Gorski and I are on the most recent episode of the Ecomodernist Podcast talking about (what else) snake oil.
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The Covid-19 crisis is not an excuse to lower scientific standards, which would just backfire, argue ethicists in a new paper. They are exactly correct.
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Hawaiian gecko. Each toe has hundreds of setae, and each of them have hundreds of finer hairs. They are small enough that the van der Waals force becomes significant - an electromagnetic force that allows them to stick.
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Getting lots of questions about Dr. Mikovits. She appears to be an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist crank. She wrote a book with notorious antivaxxer, Heckenlively. Foreward by nutjob RFK Jr.
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A cold tolerant Gros Michel banana? If there were a Nobel prize in bananas, this guy should get it.
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Listen to an interview with me about astrology. Yes, it's still a thing.
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Wow, I really let the weeds in my backyard get out of hand.
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So I guess I'll keep playing Fallout 4 -
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Hot yoga is indeed fashionable nonsense.
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Going to see Solo tonight. Hope it doesn't suck as much as everyone fears. We will be reviewing it on AQ6.
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They have monarch butterflies in Hawaii, and milkweed. The caterpillars isolate the toxin from the milkweed, and use it to deter predators.
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OK - I just took the twitter plunge. May the Lords of Kobold help me.
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Here I am trying to figure out what to blog about for tomorrow. The air powered car is old news. It was a slow science news weekend.
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I had a fun interview on the Beyond Synth podcast:
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Hey - I got 3 followers. I haven't really announced this yet.
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