Internet Science Resources
Under construction 2005-12-25. I appreciate your patience.
Canards De-Bunked
Canard: Science proves bees can't fly therefore science is untrustworthy.
Lasers Illuminate the Flight of the Bumble Bee. PhysicsWeb News. Available at: http://physicsweb.org/article/news/5/10/9. 2001-10-16.
Canard: 20% or less of western medicine is evidence based.
Imrie R. The Evidence for Evidence-Based Medicine. Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 8; 2000: 123. Available at: http://www.vet-task-force.com/CTiM.htm
Critical Thinking
- Science and Creationism A View From the National Academy of Science. National Academy of Science Press (1999).
- American Council on Science and Health
- Foundation For Critical Thinking
- The Millenium Project (Trenchant acerbic commentary on pseudoscience, bigotry, and fraudulent claims focusing on, but not limited to Australia.)
- National Council Against Health Fraud (Just what its name implies.)
- New England Skeptical Society
- Guide to the Logical Fallacies. (Stephen Downes)
- Quackwatch (Peerless resource on aberrant, dubious, and nonsensical medical interventions run by Stephen Barrett MD.)
Best Bets
- Science and Fraud (Bernard Hiller)
Cults
- FACTnet.org (Church of Scientology explaineded.)
- Rick Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults. (Controversial groups and cult movements.)
Updated: 2005-12-25
All material © Elizabeth Woeckner (2001- ) unless otherwise noted. The opinions expressed on this page are my own.
