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Friday
Mar302007

Get a Degree in Evasion and Deception

DateFri 2007-03-30

While I am sticking the boot in on homeopathy, here is a Nature special report on pseudoscience teaching posing as real science degree courses at British universities (link via The Island of Doubt).  How can you have a science in which you cannot afford to ask awkward questions (ie: subject it to randomised double-blind tests) without it collapsing?

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