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Skeptic Vodcast 4: A Darwinian Adventure!

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Yes it’s time for Skeptic vodcast number 4… which features a Darwinian adventure you can’t afford to miss.


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    How to define Quacks

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    Quackery in Head and Neck Cancer
    Most human beings will do almost anything to prolong their existence or to relieve the suffering of disease. Others will do anything to exploit these desires by selling what they claim to be pain killing remedies or life prolongation nostrums. We present three cases of head and neck cancer patients; two used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) prior to presenting to our service and the third declined conventional treatment to seek CAM instead. We discuss here the diagnosis, the time delay between CAM and commencement of conventional treatment, and the outcome in each case. Our aim is to define Quacks and to heighten public awareness of the potential harm they can cause.
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    Tribute to vaccine’s forgotten man
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    Roger Daltrey: homoeopathy saved my baby’s life
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    Brits increasingly opting for complementary medicine
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    Man “grows some skin on his finger”, world press goes wild
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    Psychics not all they’re cracked up to be
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    As David Blaine breaks the record for fooling the most amount of people with the least amount of effort
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    Philipp Von Boeselager
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    Red and green meet brownshirts
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    Albert Hofmann: 1906-2008
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    Spooky goings-on at library
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    UPDATE – Storm over global-warming sceptic hurricane man – April 30, 2008
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    Have you used Chinese medicine?
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    Have they really invented a miracle pill that will let you eat as much as you want and STILL lose weight?
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    Do vitamin supplements do more harm than good?
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    Fielding to launch Paranormal Channel
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    Jail for pervert got by psychic
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    Glowing orange UFO caught on film
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    An utterly shambolic chat with Robin Ince
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    The secret of eternal youth? Try a tomato
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    I predict.. you’ll sue a psychic
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    The Litvinenko files: Was he really murdered?
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      The Woo-Tang Klan

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      Found by a Skeptics in the Pub regular:
      The attached article in today’s Evening Standard:

      “Mediums, spiritualist and clairvoyants convene on Trafalgar Square to protest against the new rules intended to offer consumers more protection against fraudsters”


      The Spiritual Workers Association.


      They seem like a very interesting group. They are meeting at 12pm in Trafalgar Square on Friday 18th 2008 to wave banners about.
      At 2pm they will be presenting a petition to Downing Street.
      Apparently they will be interviewed by BBC Radio London beforehand.

      Magical chance to make a million
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      Project for Doctoral Studies in States of Consciousness and Parapsychology
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      Boston Skeptics in the Pub: April 21
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      London England BA Meetup! Now with more Randi!
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      Ghost-hunters hold vigil in Saffron Walden
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      Charity set for spooky encounter
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      Unforgettable Hen Nights with Haunting Breaks
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      End of Consciousness
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      God is behind some of our greatest art
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      The debate Richard Dawkins chose to forget
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      Clairvoyant wins cash prize
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      Acupuncture for headache relief
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      Happy now? The course claiming to replace the blues with true happiness
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      Laws targeting mediums spot on
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      What is a soul?
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      Parapsychology and the Skeptics Author, Chris Carter Sees Scientific Evidence for ESP
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      Thanks to the Dudley News
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      Writing about science
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      Free help to beat depression
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      UFO: what the nurse saw
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      UFO ‘gave me the heebie-jeebies’
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      TV phone-in shows face crackdown
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      British Humanist Association welcomes stricter regulations on spiritualism
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      Spooky support for charity
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      Science: We Were Wrong, And We Can’t Explain This
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      Atheist versus Bishop
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      Expelled Conspiracy Revealed!
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      SHOP IN THE SPOTLIGHT OVER HOMEOPATHIC CLAIMS
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      Ben Stein Dukes it Out with Darwin
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      ROBBIE WILLIAMS RECORDS UFO DOCUMENTARY
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      Have UFOs come back to the South?
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      Ghost hunt at the Ruins
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      Ruth the Truth shuns psychic limelight
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      Call to rescue ‘evangelical’ from misunderstanding
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      Arthur C Clarke: science’s critical cheerleader
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      Latest UFO news in from India
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      UFO spotted in Wigan (video)
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      More UFO theories
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      Evidence from the physical world
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