[Note: if you're using Internet Explorer, er, don't. But seriously – you might need to click here to see the video] In the post 9/11 era, new terms and new ideas to describe how war is being fought today have emerged in the media. One …
Andrew Orlowski at The Register reports that the Government’s new 40p-per-unit alcohol tax is underpinned by junk science from Sheffield University. [O]n close examination, the report appears to be a prime example of “policy-based evidence making” […] for “evidence”, there is no original fieldwork in this Department-commissioned …
We’re delighted to announce the arrival of the free Counterknowledge iPhone application. If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you can download the app using this link or by searching for “counterknowledge” in the iTunes Store. We are in the middle of a pandemic …
Recently, the “Church” of Scientology pushed an ordinance in Riverside County, California, to keep “members” of the group Anonymous away from their fortress-like Gold Base, and it was passed almost unanimously by Riverside County supervisors. But today, Riverside County decided to back away from that …
Why is it that almost any archaeological discovery in the Holy Land turns supposedly reputable scholars into media whores? Read this story carefully: ROME (Reuters) – A team of Franciscan archaeologists digging in the biblical town of Magdala in what is now Israel say they …
Breaking news from the world of alternative medicine: homeopaths are in serious trouble. That, at least, is what current Google Trends statistics seem to suggest. One of Counterknowledge.com’s allies – the excellent Quackometer – has discovered that internet users in the UK are googling homeopathy …
One of the most amusing features of the so-called “9/11 Truth Movement” is a tragic, desperate search for evidence suggesting its theories are gaining mainstream support. “Troofers” believe that the 11 September 2001 terrorist atrocities in New York and Washington were an inside job, orchestrated by the …
Reading our recent review of The Complex by John Duignan, you may have come across the term Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), which Duignan describes as “a dark prison complex”. You may have been skeptical about the nature of the RPF. I was, too, when I first …
The Washington Times recently reported the curious appointment by Governor Martin O’Malley of John P. Coale to the Board of Directors of UMMS (University of Maryland Medical System). Coale is a high-ranking Scientologist and trial lawyer who got rich from the “tobacco wars” and has particpated in …
Hiroshi Yamamoto sheds light on his role as chairman of The Academy of Outrageous Books in an amusing interview with Alex Martin of the Japan Times. Yamamoto traces his interest in such books to one published in the 1980s by Toru Kawajiri that interpreted the prophecies …