Learning to be less stupid           

last update:   Oct 9, 2009       * Use CTL - F5 for latest update of this page **     
authored and maintained by J.V. Marc Corbeil.         Don't forget to give credit to resources used. 

This site puts together some ideas and links that I hope develops some intelligent responsibilty. It will always be a work in progress.
Teachers watch out. Politically correct this site is not, and links may lead to material that might offend.

IB Philosophy Links

IB TOK links and resource list  

Starting point:  Evidence of a problem.  Nutritionist and Diet Challenge #1

LESSON PLAN (not finished yet)
Why bother?  -  “Think of it as evolution in action.”
Responsibility - Ignorance does not absolve responsibility.
Facts and Truth -
Experts and Non experts
Logic
Science
Learn the Math
Mechanism
Risk Assessment
Law and Morality
Religion and Spirituality

NEWS

14th June 2007. UCL reverses? decision and welcomes Prof. Colquhoun's web page back to UCL servers. Have to put this one in the win column, irrespective of the back to frontness of UCLs approach.

12th June 2007. Vaccines are under fire in US courts. Are companies deciding to abandon vaccine production?

11th June 2007 - Read about the latest attack on science by SCAM (so-called complimentary alternative medicine) quarkeroos and learn some facts about good science from "The Great" David Colquhoun's IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page.

 

 

 

TOP LINKS

BAD SCIENCE Blog by Ben Goldacre, MD

IMPROBABLE SCIENCE by David Colquhoun

Sketobot Links to Bad and junk science

Skeptic Extraordinary claims, ideas and promotion of science

Quackwatch, quack busting by Stephen Barrett, M.D

Homeopathy Watchdog - Gimpy blog and links to many badscience bloggers

Junkscience by Steven J. Milroy 
(overly focused on global climate and related political issues)

Numberwatch by John Bridgenell (check his links pages !!!)

FEATURERED LINKS That might make you think.

political indecisions: Charles Durning's famous dance a little side step youtubelink

The Great Global Warming Swindle (BBC4 Site) Thnks to the junkman. Also catch the blog: Comment on GGWW documentary. For some fun.

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE? By Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg

Patrick Moore's Website. founder of Greenpeace.
NeuroLogica Blog (neuroscience, skepticism and critical thinking)

Philosophy of Risk by the Phil Unit at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Other links :

National Anxiety Center by journalist Alan Caruba (warning – contains anti-Muslim ideology // sometimes unbalanced by  political agenda)

Quakery: Diploma mills and those who use them.
Great story: http://www.credentialwatch.org/reports/mcquaid.shtml

Just plain Scary:
Educated? congress  Biography guide for US government.

Someone is trying to shut Lomborg up. Why? Full copy of Bjorn Lomborg response pseudo-Sceitific Amercian's one-sided attack

Find the full and detailed response by Bjorn Lomborg Defending Himself against the obviously one-side cookout by pseudo-Scientific American. Goes to show what can happen when politics drives science. An example of science silenced. Look for Lomborg's new book Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warminghttp://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=theskepticale-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307266923.

 

Think of it as evolution in action comes from the SF novel Oath of Fealty, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell, Pocket Books, 1984.