Simon Singh The agents of counterknowledge are busy in the legal courts. The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) is bringing a libel claim against the eminent science writer Simon Singh. The libel case brought by the vitamin salesman Matthias Rath against The Guardian and Ben Goldacre …
"Stranger? No, it's definitely a tall dark strangler." As the world counts down the days until Barack Obama’s inauguration anybody with an opinion on the incoming president seems to be getting a hearing. The Daily Telegraph reports that professional “palmist” Lori Reid has identified Obama as …
My Counterknowledge post last month elicited some responses from “truthers”, with varying degrees of ineptitude. One, a certain Stewart Bradley, posted a “rebuttal” online with four follow-up questions which I thought was worthy of a response. Mr Bradley writes for a website which is ostensibly …
Regular Counterknowledge readers will know that there is no shortage of charlatans ready to take money from people in dire straits. Whether they have money problems, anxieties about the future or a life-threatening illness, there will be someone around to profit from their ignorance. The …
For the last couple of weeks, internet conspiracy theorists have been spreading a story that Starbucks is funding the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The story is based on lies and a hoax – but it found a ready audience in protestors who trashed a Starbucks …
I couldn’t resist sharing this Amazon review of Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret with Counterknowledge.com readers. Please allow me to share with you how “The Secret” changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. …
[Cross-posted from For Great Justice] In the wake of public requests for a re-examination of Scientology’s relationship to medicine following the tragic death of 16 year old Jett Travolta, Scientology now faces a potentially devastating lawsuit against it for massive labor exploitation of its staff. …
Prestigious medical journal The Lancet has just published research that will be depressingly predictable to Counterknowledge.com readers. A study into outbreaks of measles over the past twelve months has shown the UK to have one of the highest infection rates in Europe, which will heavily …
Photo: macten (CC) Last month, Counterknowledge.com kindly published my post discussing the manner in which the propagators of 9/11 conspiracy theories and their adherents – the so-called ‘truthers’ – operate, with particular emphasis on their disclaimer that they are “just asking questions”. Just for a …
If you’ve ever spent much time in Australia or followed Australian politics, you’ll have come across Quadrant, Australia’s major conservative publication. The editor since 2007 has been hard rightist Keith Windschuttle. Windschuttle started out socialist and steadily moved rightwards. His crowning glory is the book The Fabrication …