Monthly Archives: January 2010


Lay Science: Lies, damned lies, and tissue culture

Skepticism is about critical thinking and knowing how to avoid being fooled by charlatans and the honest but mistaken.  Over at Lay Science I explain one way that you can get fooled: by people citing the activities of cells in a dish as scientific proof for anything and everything.  Read […]


Cotch: I get mail

Originally posted at cotch dot net. Spam mail. I don’t mean your regular crap. Professional spam mail from the professional spammers: PR. Somebody put me on a list and now all kinds of companies and individuals are paying all kinds of PR agencies lots of money so that the PR […]


Cotch: Tough on crime in fantasy land

The first post on the new photography-oriented cotch dot net is up.  It’s a quick review of the police stop-and-search policy, in place across London as a counter-terrorism measure, and in particular the decision to consider photography to be a suspicious activity worth stopping.  Of course, it takes the skeptical […]


New blog: Journalology

I have just started blogging at Journalology, a group blog about science publishing, where I will contribute occassionality on the subjects of publishing technology, open data, the future of the scientific paper, and bad publishing.  My first post is in the latter category, revisiting the Medical Hypotheses aids denialism incident.  […]


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This is my little vanity site which syndicates and amalgamates my writing and photography from its various homes in blogs, journals and magazines.  If you wish to stalk me and know my ill-considered thoughts on a wide variety of topics that I like to claim to understand, do subscribe!  Alternatively, […]