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An unusual post today. Instead of me being my usual pedantic self on some strange use of statistics, I’m posting a tribute to Ada Lovelace and women in science, penned by my friend, science enthusiast and accordion player extraoirdinaire, Laura Howes. In addition to the folks that Laura mentions, I’d like to add my own [...]

Social media news website Mashable announced yesterday that Facebook and Twitter [are] making a major impact on purchasing decisions. A blog for Econsultancy, a social media marketing website, were even more specific: People who follow brands in social media are much more likely to shop with them in the real world (this was toned down [...]

The recent damning conclusions from the House of Commons Evidence Check on homeopathy, calling for NHS funding for the prescribing of homeopathic remedies to be stopped, has thrown homeopathy into the news again. And, of course, the media spotlight carries with it the utterly idiotic approach of bringing “both sides” of the argument as though, [...]