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Homeopathy: Overdosing on Nothing (for New Scientist)

AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic "overdose". Sceptics will publicly swallow an entire bottle of homeopathic pills to demonstrate to the public that homeopathic remedies, the product of a scientifically unfounded 18th-century ritual, are simply sugar pills.

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The Ida Fossil: Signs You've Asked an Awkward Question #42

I'm not sure what's more priceless in this video: Attenborough's eyebrows making an abrupt dash for the ceiling, or publicity-seeking scientist Jørn Hurum's hand-wringing grimace. The question? New Scientist's Rowan Hooper asked Hurum whether the team behind the recent Ida fossil farce couldn't "have waited a little longer to do a more rigorous analysis before making their media splash." The response (see video here) was illuminating, and frankly cynical. I'll be blogging about Ida in more detail tonight, after the BBC1 show at 9pm.

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