Unscientific Issues

Homeopathy Is Unscientific and Unethical

“Field Trials of GM Crops in India: Illegal and Unscientific”

India is a signatory to the Cartagena Protocol 2 – this international Convention, though primarily focusing on transboundary movement of living modified organisms [LMOs, also popularly referred to as GMOs – Genetically Modified Organisms including GM crops], emphasizes a precautionary approach towards LMOs. The Convention is about ‘ensuring adequate levels of protection in the field, of the saf...

Public skepticism of psychology: why many people perceive the study of human behavior as unscientific.

Data indicate that large percentages of the general public regard psychology's scientific status with considerable skepticism. I examine 6 criticisms commonly directed at the scientific basis of psychology (e.g., psychology is merely common sense, psychology does not use scientific methods, psychology is not useful to society) and offer 6 rebuttals. I then address 8 potential sources of public ...

Homeopathy is where the harm is: five unethical effects of funding unscientific 'remedies'.

Homeopathic medicine is based on the two principles that ‘like cures like’ and that the potency of substances increases in proportion to their dilution. In November 2009 the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on homeopathy, with several witnesses arguing that homeopathic practice is ‘unethical, unreliable and pointless’. Although this increasing scepticism about the...

Why Carl Sagan ' s ' nuclear winter ' scenario is an unscientific fraud

On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, a wide-ranging coalition of environ­ mentalist and population-control organizations sponsored a conference bankrolled by the Rockefeller Foundation on "The World After Nuclear War: Conference on the Long-term World-wide Biological Consequences of Nuclear War." As­ tronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Paul Ehrlich announced the results of a supposed scientific investigation o...