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    <title>Nature Network - pseudoscience</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for pseudoscience</description>
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      <title>Flagrant fragrancy or Fragrant flagrancy </title>
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        <![CDATA[Lee Turnpenny - In the gents’ toilets of a pub in the sleepy Peak District is a machine selling: *Xcite! Pheromone Wipe £1* *_Wipe-on SEX appeal Neck and wrists Contains human pheromones – scientifically proven to increase sexual attraction Boosts your pulling power]]>
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      <title>REPOST: Extrasensory perception (ESP) fails the test</title>
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        <![CDATA[Noah Gray - I just recently found this group and it looks as if it has not been that active lately. So, in an attmept to jump-start the conversation from a different perspective, and if you will pardon the re-posting from the "Neuroscience":http://network.nature.com/group/neuroscience]]>
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      <title>Skeptics in the pub&#8212;coming to Boston</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - In London, a group of people have been gathering once a month for the past nine years to talk skeptically about pseudoscience, the paranormal, alternative medicine, etc. They are appropriately called "Skeptics in the Pub":http://www.skeptic.org.uk/pub/ (judging from their "list":http://www.skeptic.org.uk/pub/ of]]>
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      <title>The Biologic Institute has evolved!</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - Yes, it's true. The "Biologic Institute":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologic_Institute, the research arm of the "Discovery Institute":http://www.discovery.org/ (the main pushers of Intelligent Design) has evolved. Or at least its web page has.]]>
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      <title>Publishing pseudoscience  - can they be serious?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Raf Aerts - Around Christmas last year, Nature published a letter by "Richard Ladle et al.":http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7173/full/4501156a.html on the increasing amount of papers being submitted on Christmas day. It's hardly relevant yet amusing. But how far can scientists go with these 'pseudoscientific' papers? In]]>
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      <title>Extrasensory perception (ESP) fails the test</title>
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        <![CDATA[Noah Gray - You probably didn't need ESP to see this one coming: using state-of-the-art technology, neural evidence for the existence of telepathy, clairvoyance or precognition is lacking. "Harvard researchers used fMRI":http://jocn.mitpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/182 in an attempt to detect any changes in BOLD signals when]]>
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      <title>Scientific soccer shirts that improve playing ability?!</title>
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        <![CDATA[Mico Tatalovic - At least "this article":http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=499985&in_page_id=1779#StartComments is under Sport rather than Science section of the Daily Mail: it claims the special shirts ionize the skin allowing for increased blood flow and thereby increase performance in football players wearing these shirts. There's of]]>
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      <title>One born every minute</title>
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        <![CDATA[Lee Turnpenny - As an unstipulated hours, short-term contract post-doc, one of the things that can be worked to ones advantage is flexi-time. As I’m likely still at work in to the evening, and more often than not in at weekends, I’m currently]]>
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      <title>David Colquhoun</title>
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        <![CDATA[David Colquhoun - ]]>
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      <title>Do sceptics rush in where angels fear to tread?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - I'm currently reading the new edition of Michael Shermer's "Why People Believe Weird Things":http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0285638033/491 which is an excellent book debunking pseudoscience and superstition, from the man who is probably the best known media sceptic. However, at one point, Shermer does]]>
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