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Featuring such scientific phenomena (or non-phenomena) as Schrödinger's Cat and the Aurora Borealis, this Science Tarot deck is like no Tarot you've seen before.

"Science Tarot is a creative science communication project that combines science, art and mythology into a tarot deck to engage and awaken people's curiosity about science and the natural world."

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The Pope and Aids | Ben Goldacre

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Ratzinger has proclaimed that “The most effective presence on the front in the battle against HIV/AIDS is in fact the Catholic Church and her institutions.” This is a ludicrous claim. They’re the only major influential international political organisation that actively tells people not to do something that works, on a huge scale.  Their own figures show that their numbers are growing in Africa, even faster than the population does.

Read the full article at badscience.net

 

British Chiropractic Association finally admits defeat in Simon Singh libel case

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Two years after Simon Singh's Guardian article that questioned the validity of the claims made by the British Chiropractic Association, the BCA have finally withdrawn the libel action they started against Simon Singh personally (but not against The Guardian).  Whilst this is undoubtedly very good news, there is still much work to be done mending the UK's broken libel laws.

Read more in today's Guardian article.

The BCA press statement is reproduced below.

 

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Another senior drugs advisor quits over UK government's treatment of advice

Resignation 'threatens drug ban'

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Mephedrone is legal and widely available

Another senior government drugs adviser has quit, hours before ministers were expected to ban a new "legal high".

The resignation of Dr Polly Taylor from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has sparked speculation that the ban on mephedrone could be delayed.

Lib Dem science spokesman Dr Evan Harris said Home Secretary Alan Johnson's ban would have to wait until the council was "properly constituted".

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