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Vaccinations and Vaccination Information in Australia 20 May 2013 | 10:21 am
Vaccination is one of the most important and valuable medical treatments our civilisation has ever invented. Possibly only second to Antibiotics. Sadly there are a small group of very vocal people who...
Since When is Boston Gotham City? 23 Apr 2013 | 06:46 am
What the fuck? I just read an interesting article on Mother Jones which lists 11 mystifying things the Tsarnaev brothers did, and one of them in particular made me double take; Number 7: The quest to...
Delivering Cuteness to soften the blow of correction 19 Apr 2013 | 08:30 am
rbutr has just made a new change to its methods. It now displays a picture of a random cute animal for 3 seconds before taking users to the rebuttal they have requested. There is even scientific reaso...
Correcting the Internet – The difficulties, and a new approach 18 Apr 2013 | 06:22 pm
I just published a new article reviewing an academic paper on the rbutr blog: Review of The Promise and Peril of Real-Time Corrections to Political Misperceptions by Garret and Weeks by SHANE on ...
The Problems with Rupert Sheldrake’s TEDx Talk 13 Mar 2013 | 09:04 am
Rupert Sheldrake has stood on stage at a TEDx conference and listed the 10 dogmas of science: Dogma 1. Machinistic Universe Dogma 2. Matter is unconscious (not even we are) Dogma 3. The laws of nat...
Gender Differences and Why They Don’t Matter So Much 6 Feb 2013 | 07:55 pm
Well, it looks like i won’t need to rewrite my post from the other week about how men and women are different, because someone has managed to write out basically what I was thinking, and make it sound...
Thailand and Random Thoughts 3 Feb 2013 | 05:08 pm
Just a quick update from Ao Nang, Krabi, Thailand. We’re 4 days in to our 2 weeks stay here, which is just a stop over on our way back to Australia where I can get back to work with Craig on rbutr. Re...
Skeptics Aren’t The Big Bad Negative People You Think They Are 26 Jan 2013 | 01:06 am
It was back around 2005 I think. I was reading a book called The Field, by Lynne McTaggart, which was explaining how science is starting to show that there is a ‘field’ in the universe which connects ...
Beliefs I have held until someone reminded me to actually think about them… 22 Jan 2013 | 03:37 am
I know I am not alone in doing this – holding beliefs which you have simply never thought about. In fact, I am pretty sure it is the default position of pretty much everyone. We all get raised a certa...
Re-Legalise Cannabis 14 Jan 2013 | 10:59 pm
A petition has been started to re-legalise cannabis in Australia. I have signed it, and I think every other person in Australia should sign it too. There are so many reasons to legalise it that it mak...
