Critical thinking
As someone who accepts the reality that there is almost certainly not a god, and likewise accepts as basically fact, the exceeding well-supported scientific Theory of evolution by natural selection, largely as described by Darwin, I find it pretty unpleasant to be likened to fascist mass-murderers, as people like Josef Ratzinger are wont to...
I have a few things to blog about, but will do my best to pace myself. Today I’ll have a whinge about a “study” (scare quotes intentional) from La Trobe University in Melbourne that purports to show that a high intake of coffee increases a person’s propensity to experience hallucinations. This has of course...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, something has annoyed me today. Today’s something has to do with diagnostic rigour, and the impact that has on the appropriateness of the treatments offered to patients. We often see people referred following some stress or conflict or other. Sometimes there is psychiatric illness behind it; often there is not. Sometimes...
Just found this in a folder of old photocopied stuff from my registrar training. I have no idea what book it’s from, but was interested to see way back then I did have something about Bayes’ Theorem and the importance of prior probability in assessing posterior probability – something I’ve become much more aware...
In Which Heavy Metal is Evil, Because Suicide!!1!1
Oh we have ourselves another fool, smothering a plate of idiocy in moron sauce. This time it’s Dr Katrina McFerran, from the University of Melbourne (who, as Guitar World noted, is not Tipper Gore, though you’d be forgiven for thinking so) who is trumpeting the dangers of teh heavy metalz – with a beautifully...
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