Venus TV, a UK satellite channel aimed at the Asian community, has had its knuckles severely rapped by Ofcom and the Advertising Standards Authority – to the tune of £35,000 – over ads for highly questionable products and services. The channel breached the advertising code …
Dr Ben Goldacre in Saturday’s Guardian and in his excellent blog details the inaccuracies contained in the BBC’s reporting of the Down syndrome story last week. There has been a small rise in Down’s babies being born. But BBC Radio 4, in a half-hour show …
To coincide with his 60th birthday, Prince Charles – a.k.a. the Prince of Counterknowledge – took the opportunity to make an important announcement via his friend and biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby. When Charles is made King, wrote Dimbleby in the Sunday Times, he will continue to …
After his off the wall outburst concerning genetically modified crops – and, in particular, the “widespread environmental damage in India caused by the rush to mass produce GM food” – Prince Charles was rightly labelled “the Prince of Counterknowledge.” Now, his royally bad science is …
The Daily Telegraph reports today that one in three teachers recommend teaching creationism alongside evolution. Bonkers? I don’t think so. Nor did I think the resignation of Rev Professor Michael Reiss was to be applauded. In fact, it was a travesty: the Rev Professor merely suggested was that …
Here’s a lesson for any “debunking” website thinking about employing Google AdSense. We switched AdSense on this afternoon (you may have noticed it in the far right-hand column on the homepage), only to discover that Counterknowledge.com was now advertising Bio Protective Systems’ “Green 8″ Phone Harmonizer, …
You are less healthy, less happy and less enlightened than a prehistoric hunter-gatherer. At least, that’s what Steve Taylor, author of The Fall: The Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of a New Era, thinks. Does your life feel empty? Do …
As if being mauled by Counterknowledge readers wasn’t enough, now he’s had richarddawkins.net banned in Turkey for being defamatory and blasphemous. No, really. It will come as no surprise to long-time readers of this blog that the culprit is our old friend(s) Harun Yahya, whose …
She’s a self-confessed “hockey mum”; a pro-lifer, yet a supporter of the death penalty. But does Sarah Palin, John McCain’s candidate for the vice-presidency, promote the teaching of creationism in schools? In a live television debate in October 2006 (during her race for the Alaskan Governorship) the …
Oh no! We’ve upset Echan Deravy (see below). He’s interrupted his “earth pilgrimage” to send us this message: Thanks for the coverage guys! Now I am evolved! Now I am scientifically credible! Whoopee from Tokyo. Ain’t you smart! But where is there heart in all …