Is coffee good for you, or bad? How about wine? What is the latest on gluten–does anyone know? Warm-up exercises are either essential or a waste of time, and homeopathic remedies are either closer to nature or criminally dangerous. It seems as though we have been fed a steady diet of junk science […]
Specialists and experts of various kinds are able to do illegal or immoral or antisocial things simply because the rest of us don’t really understand what they do. Even worse than that; we want to believe what they tell us. In the documentary An Honest Liar, the illusionist James Randi explains the difference between magicians who entertain us […]
Snowbird of Paradise 