Posted on September 7, 2007 by Skeptigator
Recent research indicates that one contributing factor to the mysterious colony-collapse disorder (CCD) of bee populations may be a virus (IAPV and first identified in Israel) spread from Australia.
This is a great article because it details the painstaking process that many researchers are going through in order to identify the cause (or causes) for CCD.
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Posted on September 7, 2007 by Skeptigator
I am going to start by saying I am neither a doctor nor biologist so there may be some other more specific problems with the following article but I ain’t smrt enough to pick up on it.
Apparently the folks at TheParanormalReport.com are reporting, Morgellons - New Disease, or Man-Made Weapon of Terror?, [queue scary music, [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2007 by Skeptigator
The Continuum of Humanist Education is offering free courses on humanism, very cool. I’d be curious what religious believers would have to say after taking this course.
I found this link via the FriendlyAtheist. He always gets to these before I do, damn you Hemant!!! Ok fine you provide a valuable service and I’m just slow…
… and now I [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2007 by Skeptigator
Richard Dawkins reviews Christopher Hitchens’ book god is not great
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Posted on September 7, 2007 by Skeptigator
I wish I could read the full article on this, Could Huntington’s mutation make people healthier?, but New Scientist has this one gated. sigh…
In case you don’t know what Huntington’s disease is (and I didn’t) here’s the wiki
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Posted on September 7, 2007 by Skeptigator
I’m not one to be too politically correct but “It’s No Delusion” as the title to an article about the surprising results of research regarding schizophrenia seems a bit insensitive to me. If Scientific American keeps it up they might start making people think they are being laughed at or persecuted…. sorry.
Anyway, the research seems to support a natural selection for [...]
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