GMO foods transfer DNA to humans-another myth
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. Here we go again. A pseudoscience pushing website (which occasionally tosses in stories about real science) is trumpeting a primary...
View ArticleScientific consensus – collective opinion of scientists
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. In the hierarchy of scientific principles, the scientific consensus – collective opinion and judgement of scientific experts in a...
View ArticleThe great vaccine debate – only exists in the brains of anti-vaxxers
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.Lately, I’ve seen ludicrous articles from the anti-vaccine religion demanding a vaccine debate between the well-known pseudoscience...
View ArticleRFK Jr denies vaccine scientific consensus but accepts climate change
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.I have long criticized those who deny the vaccine scientific consensus but get angry about those who deny the climate change...
View ArticleResearching vaccines the right way – the hierarchy of biomedical research
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I have made it a point of many articles that anti-vaxxers are not really researching vaccines. They are using logical fallacies,...
View ArticleScientific consensus – collective opinion on vaccines, evolution, climate change
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. In the hierarchy of scientific principles, the scientific consensus – that is, the collective opinion and judgment of scientific...
View ArticleAnti-vaxxers don’t want to be called “anti-vaccine”— boo frickin’ hoo
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. A few days ago, some anti-vaxxer on Twitter complained that she didn’t want to be called anti-vaccine. She said it was a personal...
View ArticleScience is not a belief, not a religion — please get this straight
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I get so tired of people who science is nothing more than a belief, rather than a method to understand facts about the natural...
View ArticleVaccine safety and effectiveness are settled science
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. Anti-vaccine activists always want a "debate" about vaccine safety and effectiveness, but it is already settled science based on...
View ArticleA scientific theory is really a scientific fact
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. Creationists love to state that evolution is “just a theory.” And anti-vaccine activists love to say that the germ theory of disease...
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